On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 11:21:03AM -0800, michael wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:30:59 +0100, Markus Neviadomski wrote > > have a look at top a while, when the server is working, for example > > delivering a website or something other. And, talk about the servers > > you are running: webserver, gameserver, databases? It is very > > difficult to help you without any information. > > > > It is a simple web, file server. > After rebooting it, the load average has gone back to normal. > Its just that we have other servers that do way more work and never seem > to get over 1.00, while this one is in a small network and was showing some > load averages over 1.00 at times.
Don't know about your other servers, but if they are still running a 2.4 kernel, there certainly will be a difference. Linux 2.6 changed the way the load average is calculated in such a way that IO time spend by a process is also accounted (or accounted in a different way). Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
