On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 00:21 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Are these virtual machines? You didn't state so previously. Running > 2.6.18 as a VM guest on these machines may also be part of the incorrect > load reporting problem. If so, run the data collector daemon inside the > hypervisor itself so you get actual load figures. You'll never get > accurate performance metrics for a whole box from a kernel/daemon inside > a VM guest. >
Nope, all on the bare metal in our own datacentre. I'll let you know how the HT switchoff goes. M.