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Date:      Mon, 1 Dec 1997 01:07:01 +0100 (MET)
From:      Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
To:        Justen Stepka <jstepka@chaos.winternet.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CPU Load
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.95.971201010440.8476A-100000@brother.ludd.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971129194637.666A-100000@bullfrog.winternet.com>

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On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Justen Stepka wrote:

> Recently I added memory to my NFS server (dx4-100 now w/ 32 megs of RAM),
> when I did this the overall system preformance increased dramiticly. The
> problem that I noticed was that when using NFS/NIS the CPU load climbs to
> about 4.0+, is there a special reason that this might be happening?

The load value is not CPU load. It is the average number of processes
ready to run or waiting for disk I/O to complete.

So it is normal for a NFS server to have a high load, as it is often
waiting for disk I/O.





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