Re: High Load Average
what is running on it? have you checked top for processes?
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jordi S. Bunster wrote:
>
> Just a question: Is there any reason in particular for a Debian
> Box keep its load average always over 6?
>
> It is a AMD Athlon 750 Mhz with 256 Megs of RAM, running potato
> and 2.2.19, compiled to run on i686. It has the Patches Debian
> puts on the stock kernel, and the new-style raid patches,
> although no RAIDs are set up yet.
>
> Sometimes the Load Average goes over 10, making sendmail refuse
> connections. It is running sendmail, IMAP, POP3, apache+perl,
> Radius(cistron) and that's it. What can possibly be wrong?
>
> Sidenote: We had another similar machine (processor was a PIII
> 550 Mhz) running the same stuff, but with Slackware. Load was
> never that high, and the machine swapped all the time, at least
> 25 Megs. The new Debian Box never swaps, but has a high load
> always.
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Jordi S. Bunster
> <jsb@nautilus.com.br>
>
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