Re: load now pegs at 1

1997-02-20 Thread Richard Morin
> First, run something like "top" to see if anything is taking up > processor time. If you notice a process using about 95% of the processor, > this would be the problem. > > > Should I be looking for any other problems that I might not be aware of? > Yes. Some processes can go into uninterup

Re: load now pegs at 1

1997-02-20 Thread John T. Larkin
> Hi folks, little anomyly that I'd like to share. I had a few probs with > dpkg, and bash, which are now take care of thanks to the list. :-) Only > things is now I notice a load which doesn't drop below 1, even when I am > not doing anything. First, run something like "top" to see if anything

RE: load now pegs at 1

1997-02-20 Thread Paul Rightley
You have not given a sufficient amount of information to diagnose the problem. What process is causing the high load. I suspect that it is syslogd. If this is the case, you probably have some directories specified in /etc/syslog.conf that do not exist on your machine. Comment out the lines in /

load now pegs at 1

1997-02-20 Thread Richard Morin
Hi folks, little anomyly that I'd like to share. I had a few probs with dpkg, and bash, which are now take care of thanks to the list. :-) Only things is now I notice a load which doesn't drop below 1, even when I am not doing anything. This is a single user machine p100 with 32megs of ram, and