Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Re: [BLUG] OverLoad!

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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