Re: /proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps

From: Nate Duehr (nate_at_natetech.com)
Date: 08/04/04

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    Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 01:20:51 -0600
    
    

    On Tuesday 03 August 2004 22:08, Tim Connors wrote:

    > At that time, I tried to help someone track down a missing brace in
    > their C code, so I fired up emacs, waited 8 minutes, pressed C-x h
    > C-M-\ and waited for another half hour before giving up and leaving
    > her to fend for herself :)

    emacs!! Hey there's your problem right there! Teach those undergrads to code
    in vi and they'd have had lots more CPU and the box wouldn't have been
    swapping so much!

    (LOL! Sorry, it just *had* to be said just for tradition's sake!)

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