Re: strange load values

2009-03-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, David Vasek wrote: It is wrong becasue the computed numbers can be different from what is written in the specification (the man pages). The computed load average can be high on an almost idle machine and vice-versa. As is described here: http://marc.info/?l=ope

Re: strange load values

2009-03-13 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, David Vasek wrote: > It is wrong becasue the computed numbers can be different from what is > written in the specification (the man pages). The computed load average can > be high on an almost idle machine and vice-versa. As is described here: > http://marc.info/

Re: strange load values

2009-03-13 Thread David Vasek
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Ted Unangst wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:13 AM, David Vasek wrote: Perhaps the man page of w(1) should be changed. Currently it states: The load average numbers give the number of jobs in the run queue averaged over 1, 5 and 15 minutes. which is rather inaccura

Re: strange load values

2009-03-13 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:13 AM, David Vasek wrote: > Perhaps the man page of w(1) should be changed. Currently it states: > >The load average numbers give the number of jobs in the run >queue averaged over 1, 5 and 15 minutes. > > which is rather inaccurate or wrong. I suggest the patch b

Re: strange load values

2009-03-13 Thread ropers
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, jmc wrote: >> >> i believe that Theo and many of the devs have said many times that the >> load average means nothing. here's a reference to one such thread: >> >> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2008/11/8/4041294 2009/3/13 David Vasek : > > Perhaps the man pa

Re: strange load values

2009-03-13 Thread David Vasek
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, jmc wrote: --- Gabri Mate [Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:58:15PM +0100]: --- Hey there! I have a Compaq DL580 G1 with 4x700Mhz PIII, 2GB RAM, 2x36GB U320 SCSI on a HP SmartArray 5300 with 64MB BBU. It's a general purpose 'hobby' server. The average concurrent i believe that Th

Re: strange load values

2009-03-12 Thread Tomáš Bodžár
I can see sometimes load about 20 to 100 on some servers at work. Then they are really slow ;-) 2009/3/12 Gabri Mate : > On 10:26 Thu 12 Mar B B , jmc wrote: >> --- Gabri Mate [Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:58:15PM +0100]: --- >> > Hey there! >> > >> > I have a Compaq DL580 G1 with 4x700Mhz PIII, 2GB

Re: strange load values

2009-03-12 Thread Gabri Mate
On 10:26 Thu 12 Mar , jmc wrote: > --- Gabri Mate [Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:58:15PM +0100]: --- > > Hey there! > > > > I have a Compaq DL580 G1 with 4x700Mhz PIII, 2GB RAM, 2x36GB U320 SCSI > > on a HP SmartArray 5300 with 64MB BBU. > > It's a general purpose 'hobby' server. The average concur

Re: strange load values

2009-03-12 Thread jmc
--- Gabri Mate [Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:58:15PM +0100]: --- > Hey there! > > I have a Compaq DL580 G1 with 4x700Mhz PIII, 2GB RAM, 2x36GB U320 SCSI > on a HP SmartArray 5300 with 64MB BBU. > It's a general purpose 'hobby' server. The average concurrent i believe that Theo and many of the devs ha

strange load values

2009-03-11 Thread Gabri Mate
Hey there! I have a Compaq DL580 G1 with 4x700Mhz PIII, 2GB RAM, 2x36GB U320 SCSI on a HP SmartArray 5300 with 64MB BBU. It's a general purpose 'hobby' server. The average concurrent connections are 20-30, mostly resolv queries for bind. The load is always aroun 1.0 and frequenlty jumps up to 2. I