FW: Strange HI Load

[Glenn Steen]

On 17/06/06, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/06/06, Thomas Chamtieh <tchamtieh at nayzak.com> wrote:
> (snip)
> > Yes, after running `service MailScanner stop` a few time, all the
> > MailScanner processes die. There's actually 2 CPUs, looks like for
> > because they're multithreading. As I type this email, there are about
> > 120 MailScanner processes running, the LA is about 74%. I'm going to try
> > re-installing MailScanner tonight to see, maybe something went wrong
> > with the install, although it reported no errors when I upgraded.
>
> Ht.... Why don't you turn that off? Likely don't contribute anything positive;)
> Further... "Load Average" is never a percentile... CPU usage might be
> measured like that, but not load. Load is simply the run queue size
> (total) + 1/process in state D.
... measured as av erage over 1 5 and 15 minutes... (just for clarity:-)

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