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Last time I saw this a hard drive had failed, and the nightly slocate
job was hanging trying to access the disk.  Each task was stuck in the
kernel, so it added 1 to the load average, but wasn't busy as the disk
wasn't talking.  This only got noticed when the LA went over something
like 16 and then sendmail stopped responding--sendmail is clever and
if the LA is too high it assumes the box is busy.

I found it by running "ps aux" and looking for unusual jobs in unusual states.

Michael


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