On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:00:00PM -0800, Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| A question that has been naggin at me for a while, is what is considered
| excessive load on a box?
[...]
| 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?
A box is too slow when it feels too slow.
Provided response is ok you're probably fine.
A load of 1.0 merely means it's _always_ got something to do
with its CPU rather than being idle.
So more than one is fine. Especially when 1.0 of that is dnetc, cranking
away with your idle time at very low priority.
Things are starting to get bad when thing slike the below occur:
- the machine is being painfully sluggish for users
- there are usually things in D state, blocked waiting for disc
- you're paging a lot - the working set of pages exceeds your RAM
for a sustained time - your box will be thrashing (spending most
time paging, little time working)
So: busy is good, until the load starts interfering with effective use.
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