sokka wrote: > On 7/26/06, Bowie Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WrackWeb - Jean Respen wrote: > > > What is "normal" high load for a server? 'cause i had a 10.0 of load > > > just before, with a 8 in my conf for spamd childs.... is it normal?! > > > > The load level is just an indicator. The exact number is not > > important. The important thing is that you system be able to process > > mail in a timely manner. I find that my system starts seriously > > slowing down when the load level gets over 10. > > > > In normal use, my load level generally stays under 1.5. > > give the top result
Please keep list traffic on the list... My server is fairly low volume, so the traffic tends to come in bursts. Here is a top snapshot while spamd is scanning a message. top - 11:05:27 up 35 days, 18:04, 2 users, load average: 0.39, 0.51, 0.47 Tasks: 137 total, 1 running, 134 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie Cpu0 : 8.3% us, 2.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 75.7% id, 13.6% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Cpu1 : 8.0% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 80.0% id, 10.7% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1002108k total, 300448k used, 701660k free, 10464k buffers Swap: 2096376k total, 72672k used, 2023704k free, 25892k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 22813 xxxx 15 0 57724 53m 2712 S 13.3 5.4 0:17.93 spamd 25112 xxxx 17 0 52652 48m 2696 S 4.0 4.9 0:03.27 spamd 25776 xxxx 16 0 2892 440 364 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 spamc 25781 xxxx 17 0 46792 42m 2620 S 0.0 4.3 0:00.00 spamd This is fairly normal. The load average will go up to 1.5 or so if a batch of emails comes through. If I get more than 6 or 7 spamd processes running, the swap starts thrashing, the load average goes up to 15+ and the system starts running VERY slowly. On the other hand, there was someone (running Solaris, I think), who said that his system was perfectly useable with a load average of 15. So it depends on your system. Bowie
