A question that has been naggin at me for a while, is what is considered excessive load on a box?
I have several Linux boxes running at home, most running 24/7. It is one of my main hobbies, and I am really the only user on the machines for the most part. Eventually I want to get things set up so everything is more tied together, but right now, each box is pretty much independent, i.e. couldn't care less if any one box croaked, other than the firewall/gateway box, of course ;) I have one box which is a no-name white-box Celeron 266 w/ 64MB RAM. Running XFCE, Opera, Pine, Slrn, Gimp, and dnetc, it usually averages btwn 1.5 and 2.5 on the load average numbers, but doesn't seem to have too many problems that can't be otherwise attributed to a *slow* hard drive. I am running dnetc, so it appears that I am almost always running at *least* 1.0, usually more, no matter which box it is. What I want to know, is at what point is a box considered 'overloaded' and something needs to be done about it? How high of a sustained load average is healthy? TIA, Monte _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
