[K12OSN] Load average above 10?

[Ryan Collins]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, "Terrell Prudé, Jr." wrote:
> k12osn at collinsoft.com wrote:
> >I just put K12LTSP 4.1.1 on my Dell 6500. It has 4 Pentium III Xeon
> >processors, 4GB of RAM, and 2 18GB 15000 rpm SCSI drives. Should I be
> >concerned that the load is going over 10? If I do a top it shows that each
> >processor is maybe at 5% utilization. Homes for the users are mounted over
> >NFS from our OS X server. The machine doesn't seem sluggish at all.
> If you've got any users at all, even just sitting there doing nothing
> but still logged in, then nah, I wouldn't be worried. All GNU/Linux
> boxes use just a little CPU at quiescence (maybe 0.5 to 0.8% per CPU), a
> little bit more when you run top. I've seen top take up 1% or so,
> depending on the speed of the CPUs and how often you tell top to sample
> your resource usage. Also, you've got to do some X11 protocol processing
> to facilitate the display of all that stuff that people are seeing (it
> isn't much, but it's there).
>
> What are the top CPU-using applications when you see the
> 5%-per-processor usage?

In this case it was Abiword, but I don't have the exact percentages right
now...

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Ryan Collins - Technology Coordinator
Kenton City Schools
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