We have an Alphaserver 1000 with V4.0B. When the system runs for some
time, the load averages are allways above 2 although, according to top, 
there seems to be little cpu activity going on.
last pid: 1879928;  load averages 2.36,  2.45,  2.4039
14:08:19
236 processes: 1 running, 1 waiting, 68 sleeping, 158 idle
Cpu states:  3.1% user,  0.0% nice,  8.2% system, 89.3% idle
Memory: Real: 57M/123M act/tot  Virtual: 140M/766M use/tot  Free: 2744K
  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE   TIME    CPU COMMAND
25593 casteels  45    0  3056K  385K run     0:00  1.20% top
28474 deco      42    0  9336K 1220K sleep   0:16  0.80% sas
  287 root      44    0  1776K  155K sleep 149:14  0.70% ypserv
13580 casteels  45    0  2184K  376K sleep   0:00  0.60% tcsh
25315 root      44    0  1600K  188K sleep   0:00  0.30% login
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Paul Casteels		casteels_at_uia.ua.ac.be	Tel: +32.3.8202455
                                                Fax: +32.3.8202245
University of Antwerp	Dpt.Physics
Universiteitsplein 1
B-2610 Wilrijk
Belgium
Received on Fri Sep 12 1997 - 14:31:55 NZST