How to debug high system load?

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Bryn,

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:17:01PM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> 
> That would normally also be reflected to some extent in CPU usage and
> process activity as shown in top (unless the problem was buffering
> them from a really slow network file system or something).
> 

I do have AFS (authenticated with Kerberos) on my laptop, although I'm
not using it at the moment. There are no background jobs that should
access it either. Only time AFS is used is when I explicitly run some
jobs (through python scripts) for my research.

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Suvayu

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