On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:24:11PM -0700, Michael Graff wrote:
> 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?

Or forking?  Forking new processes seems to cause lots of system load.

  -jm