unusually high load averages

[Jonathan Fosburgh]

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On Thursday 29 January 2004 03:34 pm, Jake Khuon wrote:
> I'm noticing some unusually high load averages even though nothing seems to
> be taking up much CPU.  This started happening with a recent cvsup (last
> night).  Anyone know what might be causing this?
>

Run `top` and see what your interrupts are doing. I'd guess you're suffering 
from the IRQ20 storm.  vmstat -i should also tell you that.  A patch was 
posted to this list in the last couple of weeks that deals with this.  It is 
working for me (I first ran into this a couple of days ago).

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Jonathan Fosburgh
AIX and Storage Administrator
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX 
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