Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:08:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Shawn Lussier <project10@alpha.focalnetworks.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: NFS & Load Averages Message-ID: <20010624235632.R93133-100000@alpha.focalnetworks.net>
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Has anyone any ideas what might be causing one of my systems to have a high load average than the other system? I am running a recursive cp between two systems on a 10mbps LAN. The systems, at the time, have nothing else running aside from the NFS server and client. The first server, ``omega'', has load averages around .70. This system is a 1.0 ghz system, with 512 mb ram and 30 gb of ATA/100 disk space. It's running a 3COM 3c905B card, to my recollection. The second system, ``alpha'' is a celeron 450 with 256mb ram and 17 gb of ATA/66 storage, running a ne2000-compatible network card. The load averages on alpha are somewhere around .12 when doing the copy. The cp process is being run on alpha, copying the entire /usr tree, which is exported on omega. I am somewhat perplexed about the cause of the higher load averages on what (should) be a more powerful system. Again, does anyone have any insights as to the cause of this? I believe it may be something to do with the disk system on omega. -Shawn L To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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