server went down

5:23pm up 2:15, 191 users, load average: 11.46, 11.16, 14.25

872 processes: 858 sleeping, 14 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 18.3% user, 81.5% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
CPU1 states: 17.0% user, 83.0% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
CPU2 states: 18.7% user, 81.1% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
CPU3 states: 17.1% user, 82.7% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:  3954672K av, 2090204K used, 1864468K free,  573700K shrd,  331720K
buff
Swap: 1056092K av,    1684K used, 1054408K free                 1453604K
cached

this quad system constantly has 80% useage on all 4 procs??? is this
normal???

We hit 650 users today and had to reboot. Not good. The system was
still
running but the load was so high that it would not move. There seem to
be atleast
2-3 process left hanging after someone logs out. usually -sh and our
bussness
application.

What in a program can cause it not to die when your session is over? and
what can i do to help clean these up rather than just haveing greping
them out
of a ps and killing them?

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Bill Warner
Direct Alliance Corp.
Unix/Linux Admin.