>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Colin> The load average refers to the average number of processes Colin> that are runnable or in uninterruptible sleep. The latter Colin> usually indicates I/O. I did not know that. still, processes in uninterruptible sleep are certainly waiting for short-term I/O, e.g. from a disk, correct? 50 webservers are more likely to be blocked on socket reads and/or accepts, which would take them off the run queue. -- joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
