100-200 load average on an idle system: Help!

[Steen Eugen Poulsen]

Thorne Lawler wrote:
> Tasks: 362 total,   2 running, 360 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie

Thats an insane number of processes.your running around 300 processes 
more than make sense for a fresh machine.

Even my fully loaded multi service server is just hitting 130.

Mem:    499648k total,   489568k used,    10080k free,    21220k buffers
Swap:  1502068k total,       88k used,  1501980k free,   159440k cached

362 processes but not a matching memory load... You have some runaway 
script that spawns itself over and over, perhaps they are all blocking 
reading the same shared mutex (load without CPU usage).


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