David Rees wrote: > On 3/26/07, Evren Yurtesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Lets hope this doesnt wrap around... as you can see load is in 0.1-0.01 >> range. >> >> 1 users Load 0.12 0.05 0.01 Mar 27 07:30 >> >> Mem:KB REAL VIRTUAL VN PAGER SWAP PAGER >> Tot Share Tot Share Free in out in out >> Act 26020 3592 144912 6868 12384 count >> All 249784 5456 2327896 11800 pages >> > > It wrapped pretty badly, but let me see if I'm interpreting this right > (I'm no BSD expert, either): > > 1. Your server has ~250MB of memory. > 2. Load average during backups is only 0.1-0.01? Does BSD calculate > load average differently than Linux? Linux calculates load average by > looking at the number of runnable tasks - this means if you have a > single process waiting on disk IO you will have a load average of 1. > If BSD calculates the load average the same way, then that means your > server is not waiting on disk, but waiting for the clients. > > What's the load like on the clients you are backing up? > Under FreeBSD if a task is blocked it doesn't contribute to load no matter what it's waiting for - so disk bound tasks don't add to load average.
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