[Cialug] stuck load average and ntp?

[John Lengeling]

Just turn off the ntpd -q from the cron and set up the ntpd service
instead.  The ntpd server will not change the time if the delta between
the current time and the ntp time is greater than X.     Whereas the
ntpd -q just explicitly sets the time.

The load average isn't coming from any file...don't know why you are
messing with wtmp...it is coming directly from the kernel/scheduler.
If you have a load average of 6 then you have 6 procs running.   See the
second line of the top output "6 running", so you probably have runaway
procs consuming all CPU.  

Kill the procs or reboot and your load average will go down.

johnl