[Samba] Could Linux load average problem be related to smbfs?
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spieg at phair.csh.rit.edu
Thu Feb 27 19:34:08 GMT 2003
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
[ getting about an 8 load average, with very little actually running. ]
this might be wholly inapplicable, but i once had a situation similar
to that, where my reported load was much much greater than my perception
of what the system was actually *doing*.
i had enabled the diskd cache whatnot method of squid, rather than
the normal ufs method.
either the squid process itself or one of its child processes was polling
something ( i don't believe it was the physical disk, but i don't fancy
being quoted on that ) once every second or so. the poll was only a blip,
but it was enough to keep the load high.
so, perhaps if those processes were strobing/polling something, it wouldn't
make the system run as busily as the load was telling you?
again, that might not be terribly applicable. ?
jared.
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