[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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