Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Re: [BLUG] OverLoad!

Actually, the 15 minute load average went over 3 times, the 1 minute
load average has gone over 14 times. So its over 14,000 now.

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:57:43PM GMT, Mark Krenz [mark@slugbug.org] said the following:
>
> Holy schnikies!
>
> [root@reality root]# uptime
> 08:50:29 up 2 days, 23:07, 58 users, load average: 806.52, 756.43, 998.38
> [root@reality root]# uptime
> 08:50:30 up 2 days, 23:07, 58 users, load average: 806.52, 756.43, 998.38
> [root@reality root]# uptime
> 08:51:34 up 2 days, 23:08, 58 users, load average: 537.12, 869.90, 1021.24
> [root@reality root]# uptime
> 08:51:47 up 2 days, 23:08, 58 users, load average: 660.41, 885.35, 0.65
> [root@reality root]# uptime
> 08:51:52 up 2 days, 23:08, 58 users, load average: 714.83, 892.90, 7.84
> [root@reality root]# uptime
> 08:51:54 up 2 days, 23:08, 58 users, load average: 764.89, 900.32, 15.00
> [root@reality root]# uptime
> 08:52:07 up 2 days, 23:08, 58 users, load average: 853.46, 914.83, 29.20
> [root@reality root]# uptime
> 08:52:09 up 2 days, 23:08, 58 users, load average: 892.50, 921.90, 36.25
> [root@reality root]# uptime
> 08:52:10 up 2 days, 23:08, 58 users, load average: 892.50, 921.90, 36.25
> [root@reality root]#
>
>
> Wow, I think the highest I ever saw the load on a machine go up until
> this point was 350 or so. I've never even heard of 4 figure load
> averages. It seems to reset the number after 1024 (2**10). But its
> a float so hmmm.
>
> Actually, I have a log that keeps track of it and this is actually the
> 3rd time that its gone over 1024 so the load is now something like 3500.
> Crazy.
>
>
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