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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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To: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Re: 2.5.51 load avg += 1
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On Saturday 14 December 2002 19:58, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > running 2.5.51, when I run 'uptime', it shows my uptime+1. that means if
> > my
>
> might you have a process/thread stuck in a short wait?

how can this be? the load average was at the given point excactly 1.0, but the 
number of running processes (ps ax|grep -v grep | grep -w R) was 0.

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