hi ya jordi you have a run away process and/or a memory leak
( amd and intel cpu behave slightly differently for ( the same code... what apps is running??? top -i ps axuw c ya alvin On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > > Just a question: Is there any reason in particular for a Debian > Box keep its load average always over 6? > > It is a AMD Athlon 750 Mhz with 256 Megs of RAM, running potato > and 2.2.19, compiled to run on i686. It has the Patches Debian > puts on the stock kernel, and the new-style raid patches, > although no RAIDs are set up yet. > > Sometimes the Load Average goes over 10, making sendmail refuse > connections. It is running sendmail, IMAP, POP3, apache+perl, > Radius(cistron) and that's it. What can possibly be wrong? > > Sidenote: We had another similar machine (processor was a PIII > 550 Mhz) running the same stuff, but with Slackware. Load was > never that high, and the machine swapped all the time, at least > 25 Megs. The new Debian Box never swaps, but has a high load > always. >
