[lug] High load with 'w'

[John Starkey]

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 16:58, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> In any case, has anyone seen loads like that?  Was it just a fluke with 
> the 'w' (and 'top') command, or something I should look into more 
> closely?

I've seen it at > 1000, due to sendmail backing up on a big forum.

A load of 76 on that server is usually when several harvestors, Google,
Slurp and Inktomi all go wild. Nothing we really worry about. If we wait
a few minutes the honeypot catches the bad guys and it comes back down
to 6 or so.

John