Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:26:24 -0600 From: Samuel J.Greear <dragonk@evilcode.net> To: jslivko@4evermail.com <jslivko@4evermail.com>, <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Loads on a Web/Shell Server Message-ID: <20011018212750.8BDBB212CC@ns1.infowest.com> In-Reply-To: <20011018202647.133DB37B407@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20011018202647.133DB37B407@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Thursday 18 October 2001 10:27 am, jslivko@4evermail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I have a shell/web hosting company (4EverMail Hosting Services) and I > have a little bit of a problem with the loads on my machine. I am > hosting a few IRC servers, eggdrop bots and a few apache websites > (mainly my own), and the loads are already at 0.15 and so on. I last > CVSupped on September 25th and cannot understand what is making my > system loads go up so high. The only clue that I have is the large > ammount of CPU time being taken by the eggdrop bots and a proccess > called: 0.15 isn't much load.... A few eggdrops can easily push the load that high dependant upon the hardware. I wouldn't worry about the load average until its consistently above 1, but that is entirely dependant on what you have running. For example, we have a DNS box (it runs many named-xfer's all day long) that never drops below a load of 14-15, but the box remains very responsive. A load average is just an indication of how busy a box is, it's hard to look at it and know right off if there's a problem unless it's abnormally high. .15 is definitely not abnormally high. My desktop usually runs .75-1.0 running KDE2. > > root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DL 2Oct01 31:08.71 (syncer) > > Would that be enough to cause the system to have such high loads? > > Below is a copy of my uname -a: > > FreeBSD equinox.4evermail.com 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Tue > Sep 25 14:36:10 EDT 2001 > root@equinox.4evermail.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/EQUINOX i386 > > If there are any dmesg bits that you might find useful to look at, > please shoot me an e-mail and I will be more than happy to supply > them to you. Thanks in advance for all your help. -- Jonathan > > Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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