Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2000 20:47:51 -0500 | From | "Mohammad A. Haque" <> | Subject | Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue |
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I have this exact argument at work every so often. People coming in from an NT environment have difficulty understanding what it is/means and that it's not neccessarily bad when load gets above 1, etc, etc, etc.
Ralf Baechle wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 02:18:20PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Numerically high load averages aren't inherently a bad thing. There > > isn't anything bad about a system with a loadavg of 20 if it does what > > it should in the time you'd expect. However, if your daemons start > > blocking because they assume this number means badness, than that is > > the problem, not the loadavg in itself. > > The problem seems to me that the load figure doesn't express what most > people seem to expect it to - CPU load. > > Ralf
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