RE: [cobalt-users] Load avarage

["Chris Demain" <cdemain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many things could cause this.
Primary suspects:
log rotation
raid syncronization


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Robin Vley
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 10:47 AM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] Load avarage
> 
> 
> 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!
> 
> 
> ---
> RW. Vley
> Stockholm, Sweden
> 
> 
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