> On a highly linux machine, you lose all control of the machine past a load of > about 6 - 10.
to be fair, I should note that as admin / user of few tens of servers running both systems, I can assure you that if your linux "loses control" with LA ~ 10, then something is seriously wrong with that server and it's not because of the linux (rather it's hardware or wrong kernel configuration). I had cases of LA climbing over 150 on linux machine - it was extremely slow but I could get it back to life w/o need for reboot. On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:28:09 +0000, Phil Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'd just like to give some credit to the freebsd developers for a > job well done. > A user on our system ( freebsd 5.2.1 smp ) managed with a runaway > script to start up 500 intensive processes, raising the load average > to about 200. > We managed to remotely, over ssh get a somewhat responsive session and > kill the offending processes. Yes, I know we shouldn't have let it > happen in the first place, by putting in proper user limits and all > that, but it was amazing that the machine still worked. We thought > we'd have to reboot. Even with a load of nearly 200, the machine was > still able to serve web pages :) > Once the load came down past 60, the system feltl fully responsive again. > On linux, we would have had to reboot in this situation. On a highly > linux machine, you lose all control of the machine past a load of > about 6 - 10. This just further vindicates my decision to use freebsd > for this service. ( Its a shell server with about 100 active users, > apache, nfs, mysql, ldap ). Just wanted to share a success story :) > Regards, > > Philip Brennan > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- Vlad _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
