phil@cs.wwu.edu (Phil Nelson) writes:
> Hi,  I have been seeing the load factor go to 1 on a machine I'm running
> (NetBSD-1.3_BETA/i386) and I have not been able to find the process that
> is responsible for the load.
> load averages:  1.08,  0.77,  0.41                                  
> CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle

Notice the load average claims ~1.0 but you are 100% idle.

It happens here so much that I ignore the load average.  Usually the
culprit is either acroread or netscape which is running either under
linux or freebsd emulators.

-wolfgang
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