On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Ruben van der Leij wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 12:48:04PM +0000, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any idea what could be the problem? The
> > disk IO is very low and my computer is *really* sleeping,
> > with a load average (uptime etc) of approx. 1.4..
>
> A loadaverage of 1.4 means you have on average 1.4 task waiting to run. Or,
> to put it in percentages: your machine has 140% of it's time filled with
> tasks that want to run.
> Even for an idle quad Xeon, that is way to high.
I agree. I manage a similar system (quad Xeon, 1GB memory) with a
loadaverage of 0.3 or thereabouts.
Although I'm not familiar with the intricacies of how load is
distributed across multiple CPUs among different OS's, I would suspect
something is wrong with your system.
Brian
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