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u (Aaron Porter) writes:
>       We were talking about load average over in mu.comp.os.unix and I
> noticed that the load on miavx1 is a whole lot higher than I would think it
> should be with the number of jobs running.  It's been over 20.0 every time
> I've checked today, and has been over 60.0 a number of times.  Has something
> changed recently?
 
I haven't been watching the load average too much, so I don't know what is
normal for the system, but I wouldn't guess that 20 is too high.
 
The statistic you're talking about is the number of processes that are
computable (not waiting on I/O, hibernating, etc).  In the afternoons, we
typically have somewhere between 200-250 processes on the system.  I'd
think that having 20 processes that are ready to use the CPU isn't too
unusual.
 
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