Matthew Walker wrote: > On Tue, September 30, 2008 4:57 pm, Michael Torrie wrote: >> Not sure what you mean here. High load normally means the CPU is *not* >> being utilized efficiently. In fact, processes are not running because >> they are waiting for stuff. So a high load often will have a processor >> that's nearly idle. Sometimes a process can cause a high cpu usage and >> cause the load average to climb if the process is holding down resources >> that other processes are waiting on. >> > > Huh. Maybe I've generally had well designed systems, but my experience has > been that if > my load average is high, there's too many CPU intensive tasks running, and > they're vying > for the processor. > > I can only think of a handful of instances of some other resource being the > bottleneck > that raised my load average.
Right. I get what you're saying. For example, if there were too many apache worker processes or something. Worth a look. Andrew never mentioned if his CPU was 100% busy or practically idle (or sitting at 75% wait). /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
