[cobalt-users] Load avarage

["Robin Vley" <rvley@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I have a question about load avarages, maybe someone of you guys know
something about it...

Normally my box has a load avarage of 0.00 to 0.08 or something for
normal operation, and ofcourse some spikes to 0.20 when some cronjob
runs.

A few days ago it had to be rebooted, and now my load avarage is always
around 0.20 to 0.30. It doesn't matter if it's busy or not, it's always
around that figure. The reboot was because of a power failure, no extra
stuff installed or updated.

The box "does" around 3Gb a day of traffic, mostly web and some mail.
No funny stuff running on it.

What's a normal figure for this? And does anyone has an idea where this
load may come from? When I check out top, I just see some httpd
processes taking up 0.8% or something. It says 2.5% user time, 5%
system time and 9x% idle. 


I'm curious if any interesting answer will come out of this!


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RW. Vley
Stockholm, Sweden