Subject: Re: High system load during memory access?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/01/2003 14:24:11 
Frank Wennmohs <frankw@bph.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> When the calculation is using all its 250MB
> of memory, the system load in top is around 50% !
> Otherwise no IO or anything else is running, the
> whole calculation stays in RAM.

Is the disk running a lot?  That is, is it paging or anything?

--Michael