MaD dUCK on Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:19:41 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] high load average


also sprach Michael Leone (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 10:17:39PM -0500):
> No; I've seen (on the postfix mailing list) where someone once mentioned
> that their Linux mail server once temporarily hit *6* on a load average
> (while cleared a heavily backed up mail queue). So I doubt that means
> 600%, or that this guy had 6 processors.

happened to me too. just update tripwire, compile a kernel, do a bunch
of x forwarding, encode some mp3 tracks, play some mp3's, and stuff a
gigabyte over an ssh tunnel while tar.gz'ing it. it's easy.

> > otherwise you will have to persuade me that 2.00 is 2% and that my
> > systems on average use only 0.30% of the cpu. :)
> 
> I think there's something more involved to deciphering that number.

you might well be right. although, looking at it in terms of requests
rather than work makes a lot more sense.

martin

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