>> With small devices serving as file servers, installing 70 clients >> concurrently is not a great idea (although it happened to me to >> installed ~30-40 machines, operating system + software, off a 2.4 GHz >> machine with 256 MB RAM - still, it went fine). >> So I guess, the OP should look more carefully at his server's configuration. > > Definitely. Or possibly network congestion (can that raise the CPU load? I > guess re-trying TCP transmissions could do but I'm no expert on TCP > stacks...).
Increased network activity can increase load, but not much. On a 3 GHz server, sending and receiving at a full 1 Gb/s (both ways), brings the system load up to about 2. I can only guess that OP's problem is wrong setup: - if he is running Samba, he has probably enabled too excessive logging - probably, not enough RAM So, the server writes 70 different logfiles, and tries to read that same file 70 times - disk has to jump in different places all the time, and hence, the load. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users
