Michael Leone on Mon, 5 Mar 2001 23:32:12 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] high load average


On 05 Mar 2001 22:40:01 -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:17:39PM -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> You're still not getting it.

Actually, I wrote the above BEFORE I saw your explanation about the
requests. Your explanation arrived here after I sent the above.


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