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Is this a load of crap?

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:56 pm
by Benjamin
This is a response from a web host regarding high load averages and slow page loading times..
These increased load averages and slower load times are due to the NFS
problems that we've been working on recently. Also keep in mind that a
load average of around 5 is perfectly normal for servers running dual
CPUs with about 2GB of memory. The load average is just the average
number of processes in the run queue and has no direct correlation with
how fast a server will perform.

Write back if you need anything else.

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:58 pm
by feyd
5? That's a 500% load. That's far from normal.

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:02 pm
by Benjamin
Check this out..
[server]$ uptime
11:43:20 up 12:24, 3 users, load average: 7.17, 6.53, 6.20
[server]$ uptime
12:01:57 up 12:43, 2 users, load average: 19.57, 14.29, 10.71

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:23 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Holy crap! Someone needs to get that information to your host.

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:28 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Yeah that's pretty poor.

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d11wtq php4-dev # uptime
 20:25:55 up 30 days, 37 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.05, 1.06, 1.02
I prefer things to stay below 1.0.

Haha, now check our dual opteron servers :P

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[root@iris-1 ~]# uptime
 20:27:07 up 86 days,  6:04,  4 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Opterons kick ass!

I've seen servers get as high as 20 before and the host was still trying to tell the guy that it was fine.

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:35 pm
by feyd
yeah, the load here stays somewhere around 0.04 most of the time.

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:38 pm
by alvinphp
How much do you pay a month for hosting? It is probably average for them and i bet it is a low budget host provider.