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?!

[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

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

[Dr. Z]

Originally Posted by Garp

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

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]

Originally Posted by DRZ

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 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]

Originally Posted by Garp

You've never dealt with large multiprocessor platforms then 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

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

[Matblack]

BDs server says

Server Load Averages 0.31 0.13 0.03

MB

[Daz]

Busybox

[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!