Quoting Delz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All, > > I'm encountering large load average on my server that even reached up to > 50. > I have a 1.8 Ghz Intel server w/ 6Gb RAM & w/ a gigabit ethernet that runs > kdm and connected to a switch and I have 55 workstations. I run Redhat 7.2 > on my server. My question is how do I reduce the amount of load that the > server carries and is limiting users to the amount of processes executed > solve this problem? What's the fastest window manager that can be run on > LTSP that doesn't brings too much load on the server, kdm, xdm, icewm? > Please help. >
I find that HUGE load averages like that are almost always I/O related. Often times some process or group of processes are trying desperately to read/write to a non-local file system that isn't functioning. maybe NFS? slow hard drives? Like someone else suggested, try top first. If there is an obvious process that is just crunching the processor, kill it and find out why it's doing it. If there isn't an obvious process that is causing the load, it is probably a I/O problem and not a busy processor. As I understand it, the load average is the number of processes waiting for the processor at any given time, so it is really a combination of I/O and processor load. We use icewm and have about 75 workstations. 25-30 in use at a time usually with load averages usually < 1.0 but sometimes briefly as high as 4 or 5 when lots of people fire up staroffice at once. Its a dual 733Mhz with 2GB of RAM. All of our user file systems are on a separate file server and accessed with NFS. HTH, Derek > Regards, > > Delz > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T > handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > > -- Derek Dresser Gould Academy Bethel, ME 04217 (207)824-7700 "Nothing endures but change" --Heraclitus ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
