Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen:
>
> At 16.10 this afternoon I started a process via a shell script which
> is nso resource-hungry
…
> (In the script, I am loopìng over the about 3700 tar.gz files in one
> directory. For e ach of them, I am spawning a
> sub-shell (using &) doing some installation wo rk).
^
Looks like you are uncompressing and extracting your 3700 tar.gz files
in parallel. You are probably stressing CPU and hard disk at the same
time.
Yes, the system shouldn't become *totally* unresponsive. But hey, you
are generating a system load far beyond 100, I guess. What did you
expect?
J.
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