Re: [BLUG] OverLoad!

I feel like someone who has a big secret and tells people that they
have a big secret but that they can't tell anyone. Needless to say I
can't tell you exactly, but it wasn't CPU bound, it was disk io waits.
So not real load. The system was still pretty responsive. Its back
under control now. Great way to start the week though. And a good
story for the next BLUG meeting. ;-)

Mark

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 01:04:15PM GMT, Brian Wheeler [bdwheele@indiana.edu] said the following:
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 12:57 +0000, Mark Krenz wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Its not actually a float -- you can't use floating point in the kernel,
> so its probably just scaled, using 1024 as its base...
>
> In any case, that is a big number. What exactly is that machine doing?
>
> Brian
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