[K12OSN] OT: High load averages with CentOS?

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 6:34 AM, David Hopkins <dahopkins429 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am curious if anyone else is seeing the following:
>
> In a classroom of 27 students, they launch Firefox 2.0.0.16,
> Staroffice8 Impress, and Staroffice8 Writer. The load average goes to
> around 32 and stays there.  There isn't any swap being used (memory
> usage is at 85%), and %id is around 1-2%.  This same system running
> Fedora 7 ran these same packages in this scenario with a load average
> of around 6 and %id in the 50% range.  I have made certain that I have
> the same version of FF (and flash and java plugins) as well as the

What version of flash?
What are the top 10 apps listed by "top"?

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