In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] 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. -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask]