Re: mysterious load

[Robert Brown <eli typhoon xnet com>]

Cameron Simpson writes:
 > On 23:25 31 Dec 2003, Robert Brown <eli typhoon xnet com> wrote:
 > | I figgured out what the problem was, --this time--, but it would still 
 > | be nice to better understand the general case.  This time, it was gpm
 > | was hung up in the middle of reading the mouse when the
 > | keyboard-mouse-display switch was flipped to another machine, so the
 > | mouse got pulled at an inoportune moment.  Very interesting!
 > 
 > Care to describe how you determined this?

I took a closer look at either a "top" or "ps awfxu", display being
logged in via ssh, and saw that "gpm" was flagged with an "R" a ways
down in the list.  I then switched the keyboard-mouse-monitor switch
back to the machine in question and instantly saw the load start to
decline. 

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