Re: safe load average
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
Colin> The load average refers to the average number of processes
Colin> that are runnable or in uninterruptible sleep. The latter
Colin> usually indicates I/O.
I did not know that. still, processes in uninterruptible sleep are
certainly waiting for short-term I/O, e.g. from a disk, correct? 50
webservers are more likely to be blocked on socket reads and/or
accepts, which would take them off the run queue.
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joe
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