Re: [cobalt-users] Load Average High

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On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote:

>
> > So, I'm half tempted to politely ask the guy to move on...since I'm not
> > sure he's savy enough to make the script less of a burden.
>
> Sounds like a poorly-written script to me.  You can always use
> uname to limit at least some of what he can eat up... but that
> really sounds like one mean script.

Hmmm, pardon my pointy-headedness, but how would I go about doing that?
>
> A loadavg of 130 means that there were at least that many
> processes active... why so many?

Well, one reason could be that were numerous visitors to his site, all
calling the cgi at the same time...since it's a pig, two or more of
it(them) could really slow things down...and then any other processes
could come to a screeching halt.

I saw at one point his script was using 23 per cent of the CPU, which
seems real large....would be nice to put a cap on his use.

Thom