On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 16:05 -0400, Walt Reed wrote: > (slow disk can cause high load average numbers as you spend > all your time in I/O Wait.)
Um, no. At least in traditional Unix (meaning System V and the BSDs), the "load average" is the average length of the run queue. By definition, if a process is asleep waiting for I/O to complete (as is the case for disk), it is _not_ on the run queue, and so doesn't contribute to load average. A high load average comes from having too many processes runnable. Having fast disks won't help if your processes are CPU-bound. -- Frank Mayhar, x3057 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
