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Date:      Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:20:01 +0100
From:      fandino <fandino@ng.fadesa.es>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Load over 1000
Message-ID:  <421B2371.1010602@ng.fadesa.es>
In-Reply-To: <20050219210106.GB47389@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20050219141530.GA67861@hurx.thc> <20050219210106.GB47389@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Christian Jachmann wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>seems that vm.loadavg cant grow over 1024
>>
>>e.g.
>>
>>last pid: 68005;  load averages: 993.78, 334.47, 636.27 up 0+03:26:16  15:12:28
>>1580 processes:1530 running, 50 sleeping
>>CPU states: 95.0% user,  0.0% nice,  5.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
>>
>>having some senseless code to produce a load of 2000 on a system.
>>
>>but... top does not show right values.
>>
>>last pid: 68098;  load averages: 373.53, 641.73, 725.40 up 0+03:27:36  15:13:48
>>1673 processes:1621 running, 48 sleeping, 4 zombie
>>CPU states: 96.9% user,  0.0% nice,  3.1% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
>>
>>
>>seems that there is a bug
 >
> Does this matter at all?

It matters indirectly, sendmail refuse to send messages because load average
is higher than the default  value.



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