Can you top this?

[Dr. Z]

*groan* hehe

Just SSHed into the radio station's web server to see why I couldnt load any pages. Greeted by a load average at the time of 157.00. Its currently at 158.4

Can you beat that?!

:D

[petemc]

O_o wtf was it doing?

[Dr. Z]

ps aux | grep apache | wc returned a value of 155... PHP spacked out and went a bit mad...

[Garp]

I don't think I've ever seen a load average that high :shocked:

One of our customers old Cobalt Raq550s was getting hammered so hard it was peaking around 50, but thats awful old hardware.

[Matblack]

BDs server says

Server Load Averages 0.31 0.13 0.03

MB

[Dr. Z]

I don't think I've ever seen a load average that high :shocked:

One of our customers old Cobalt Raq550s was getting hammered so hard it was peaking around 50, but thats awful old hardware.

I have never seen anything higher than about 15 and that was doing some crazy stuff. Im actually surprised the server coped for the 24 hours it was before I noticed and decided to do something about it. Of course, it had totally failed to serve any pages in that time.

[Garp]

I have never seen anything higher than about 15 and that was doing some crazy stuff. Im actually surprised the server coped for the 24 hours it was before I noticed and decided to do something about it. Of course, it had totally failed to serve any pages in that time.

You've never dealt with large multiprocessor platforms then ;D Though to be fair not many people deal with 8+ Core systems. Typical load averages should fall between 75% - 150% of the processors in your system from what I've been told. Its not too unusual on one of our 12 processor mail servers to see it sitting around 18-20 load average. If you're under 75% of the total then questions could be asked about whether the system is over-spec'd :)

[Dr. Z]

You've never dealt with large multiprocessor platforms then ;D Though to be fair not many people deal with 8+ Core systems. Typical load averages should fall between 75% - 150% of the processors in your system from what I've been told. Its not too unusual on one of our 12 processor mail servers to see it sitting around 18-20 load average. If you're under 75% of the total then questions could be asked about whether the system is over-spec'd :)

Its a PII 400.... I dont think there are any questions about it being overspecced :D

And no, im a student not a server admin so I have never tinkered with really really huge stuff :p

[Daz]

Busybox :D

[Dr. Z]

Not seen that before, will have a poke around but I cant see us moving away from our exceptionally heavily customised Gentoo setup anytime soon :)

EDIT: whoops, I looked at it and thought it was a distro!

[Daz]

It was just a pun dude ;D

[Mark]

From a backup of my old server...

2005-02-01 11:05:35 Load average: 645.91, 548.69, 306.10

Will that do? ;D

[Garp]

64.65, 59.00, 54.73 :shocked:

Stupid cacti.. need to get cactid working properly on this box stop the stupid number of php instances being spawned.