Re: safe load average
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:18:01AM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote:
> >>>>> "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.
Indeed. You might be very unlucky, but that's about it.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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