On May 21, 2010, at 7:03 PM, Brandon High wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Thomas Burgess <wonsl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> shouldn't the newer server have LESS load? >> Please forgive my ubernoobness. > > Depends on what it's doing! > > Load average is really how many process are waiting to run, so it's > not always a useful metric. If there are processes waiting on disk, > you can have high load with almost no cpu use. Check the iowait with > iostat or top.
iowait is defined to be 0. It is a useless metric anyway. -- richard -- ZFS and NexentaStor training, Rotterdam, July 13-15, 2010 http://nexenta-rotterdam.eventbrite.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
