what is running on it? have you checked top for processes?
-- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use" -Fugazi On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > > Just a question: Is there any reason in particular for a Debian > Box keep its load average always over 6? > > It is a AMD Athlon 750 Mhz with 256 Megs of RAM, running potato > and 2.2.19, compiled to run on i686. It has the Patches Debian > puts on the stock kernel, and the new-style raid patches, > although no RAIDs are set up yet. > > Sometimes the Load Average goes over 10, making sendmail refuse > connections. It is running sendmail, IMAP, POP3, apache+perl, > Radius(cistron) and that's it. What can possibly be wrong? > > Sidenote: We had another similar machine (processor was a PIII > 550 Mhz) running the same stuff, but with Slackware. Load was > never that high, and the machine swapped all the time, at least > 25 Megs. The new Debian Box never swaps, but has a high load > always. > > > Any thoughts? > > > Jordi S. Bunster > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
