On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:33:29PM +1100, Leigh wrote:
> I have a backup script that uses ssh keys and tar to backup all the other unix 
> servers around my NetBSD 1.6 sparc64, after it backuped up a solaris 9 server 
> the load on the NetBSD machine has got up and stayed really high even though 
> its not currently doing any work, I think its the backup script which does 
> all the taring and gziping that seems to permanently upset the server.
> Any one have any suggestions?

load is more than just the CPU usage, especially processes doing I/O can
bump the load average. This may be what's happening here.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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