On Thursday 06 December 2007 06:13, Kain, Becki (B.) wrote:
> Thanks though yesterday, the box was so completely swamped that no
> one could log in.  Thanks

Most likely the high load average reflected an I/O bottleneck / 
overload. I believe processes in a D wait are counted in the load 
average. This, as with thrashing due to excessive swapping / paging 
leads to low CPU utilization with poor response times.


Randall Schulz
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