[K12OSN] Load Average-

Jim Christiansen christiansen_j at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 15 23:00:45 UTC 2005


I was running top.   Also, I was running around like a chicken without it's 
head... I should have done a sort by cpu or mem but didn't.

Do you know what an acceptable load average for 10 clients doing next to 
nothing is?

Thanks,  Jim

>My k12ltsp server was showing a load average 22 with 10 users.
>There  was practically zero disk activity and I only had 10 users
>out of a  possible 40.   I have never had need to worry about load,
>as we have  slowly added clients to our server and monitored the
>speed as systems  were added- all without troubles.  Even with 40
>users with Icewm -no  nautalis, speed has not been an issue.
>
>Until now...  Things have been really slow the last few days.  Slow
>logon, slow OpenOffice startup, etc.  This is when I took notice of
>the  Load Average of 22...  My system has 2gigs ram and is a twin mp
>2.2.
>
>What sort of load average should I expect?
>

Use "top" for showing what process or activity slows down you 
k12ltsp.  What dos it show?.

Mario Guerra





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