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Re: /proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps



Greg Folkert wrote:
> ...
> Or how about a multi-threaded App server running hundreds(thousands in
> some cases) of servlets a minute... I admin'd a 32 Processor, 32GB of
> Memory machine that was capable of running a couple of thousand servlets
> a minute.
> 
> The load average on this machine usually stood at about 120-150 on a
> busy day. On rush days, sometime 270+. With no effect on inter-active
> logins or performance... though I did have to re-configure some of the
> other services to accept connections at high LA. (like the MTA)

I was speaking only for us povo sysadmins with single CPUs.  :-)

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