High loads...

[Forrest J. Cavalier III]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> Bjorn Hellqvist <bjhell at telia.net> writes:
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>>I have a real problems with load...
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>>last pid:  3764;  load averages: 95.78, 29.30, 11.191 
>>up 0+00:35:00  16:08:58
>>284 processes: 36 running, 247 sleeping, 1 lock
>>CPU states:  0.7% user,  2.8% nice, 92.0% system,  1.7% interrupt,  2.8% 
>>idle
>>Mem: 127M Active, 1578M Inact, 174M Wired, 53M Cache, 101M Buf, 70M Free
>>Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
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>>This is all done from one client that abuses the system. (ie: me). This is 
>>still a testsetup, so I am the only one that uses this system.
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>>What I do is "catching up" in a more abusive way. In old and trusted 
>>netscape messanger I go into a heavy poplulated group and hold down 'T' to 
>>mark threads read. After awhile the loads gets real high.
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>>Is it something I have missed?

Netscape messenger?  I believe that was a very buggy newsreader, commonly 
opening many connections.

In addition to 'top', look at netstat or news.notice and see all the
activity from doing simple things.