Re: safe load average
>>>>> "Kirk" == Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> writes:
Kirk> "Safe"? I think you should be more interested in CPU states
Kirk> than load average. For example, consider running 50 webserver
Kirk> processes, all of which are in an I/O wait state. Your load
Kirk> average may be near 50, but your CPU may be sitting mostly
Kirk> idle. As another example, pretend you're running an RC5 or
no. "load average" refers to the average length of the run queue.
processes blocked on I/O are not on that queue.
to the OP: there's no such thing as a "safe" load average. however,
higher than normal load averages might indicate something wrong,
runaway processes or a misconfigured package or something. "normal"
depends on the context: my development workstation rarely rises above
1, but my ISP's shell server is often >10.
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joe
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