From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 5 18:04:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056C316A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:04:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from resmo.com (resmo.com [204.202.11.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF1643D39 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:04:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gstewart@bonivet.net) X-Resmo-Authenticated-User: [] X-Resmo-Msg-Submitted-By: mail.bonivet.net [81.56.185.133] Received: from dragonfly.bonivet.net (mail.bonivet.net [81.56.185.133]) by resmo.com (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j25I4rtg094616 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:04:54 GMT Received: from dragonfly.bonivet.net (localhost.bonivet.net [127.0.0.1]) by dragonfly.bonivet.net (8.13.3/8.13.1) with SMTP id j25I4hvf000775 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:04:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gstewart@bonivet.net) Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:04:43 +0100 From: Godwin Stewart To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050305190443.158c8d26.gstewart@bonivet.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.9.4 (GTK+ 2.4.14; i386-unknown-freebsd5.4) X-Face: #T;eJks=B[`71qrwp`l6BW8xI&hP8S*4Kd%e?8o"rL02ZYf"rWa41l83a)L,*; S).Ukq$U% II{-z#5%i&X8"%{$)ZWmE7WBDF)?wK1^7]u9T;@jqdZo?IT!d-L`!@&vW)F_1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: performance under heavy load X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 18:04:56 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:58:08 -0500, Vlad wrote: > to be fair, I should note that as admin / user of few tens of servers > running both systems, I can assure you that if your linux "loses > control" with LA ~ 10, then something is seriously wrong with that > server and it's not because of the linux (rather it's hardware or > wrong kernel configuration). Agreed. If you look at the details on http://www.kernel.org, you'll see that the server is running Linux-2.6 and that the load average is constantly around 200. - --=20 G. Stewart - gstewart@bonivet.net "I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true." -- Harry Truman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCKfS7K5oiGLo9AcYRArBJAJ4/Cubtab1IShcW2oSLnCJgM7FMVACgmiMs xt+xdT5ejnZJ5dxJd8SJ4BU=3D =3DQlqk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----