Re: Heavy load after 1 week

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On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 17:35, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
> Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
> > Hi Gordon,
> > no, I have no NFS here. But thanks for the iostat command, I will use it.
> > The 1 week milestone will happend next monday jul-14, so I will keep
> > you guys informed.
> 
> Check to see if you have any processes in the "D" uninterruptable wait 
> state.  You may be getting high uptime numbers because of that.  I had a 
> problem like this when tmpwatch was getting stuck on a particular file 
> and each day cron started another tmpwatch which also got stuck, so my 
> uptime incremented by +1/day until I rebooted.

Keep in mind that the term normally used for the number of concurrent
processes running is 'load average' -- not 'uptime'.  Uptime refers to
the number of days since your computer has last been rebooted.  But yes,
both are shown by the 'uptime' command.

--Jeremy

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