Are you using aufs? If you are then the load average is not a very good measure of load.. better to measure the amount of idle CPU time, system throughput, and response times.
It is possible that the aufs performance fixes simply have made your server work even better, giving a higher load average. It could also be the case that the performance fixes actually have a negative impact on your system performance but we hope not. (any negative impact is more likely to be seen on a SMP system, or a UP system with a SMP enabled kernel, if at all) Regards Henrik On Thursday 20 February 2003 16.22, kris wrote: > Hi > > I have a squid machine based on 1 Xeon 2.8GHz and SCSI discs, i > have about 260 req/s and very high load average (about 4 to 5) > My squid is Version 2.5.STABLE1-20030114 running on RH8.0 SCSI U160 > Xeon 2.8GHZ > Is that load normal ? I think that it's to high.... > What's the problem ? > > kris
