good load averages

aonic · n00b Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 14

I just recently setup gentoo for my home php dev server with help from the guys in Kernel/Hardware

I had a question what are good Load Averages for a amd athlon 1.1 ghz + 1 gig SDRAM pc133

i get around 0.32 0.07 0.02 with 2- 3 people using apache

is that ok?

WhyteWolf · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:06 am Post subject:

well to answer the question thats pretty normal ... load avg is basicly the amount of prossess trying to use the cpu then avged by the time frame 1min/5min/15min

so basicly it's saying that of the prossesses alive on the machine ... there are 0.32 per min 0.07 per 5 min and 0.02 per 15 min actualy useing the cpu

now having said that highest load avg I have seen was around 700 ... and that was me messing around with a bash script ment to crash a machine {it was my own box}
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aonic · n00b Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 14

thanks

im a real optimization freak
can you check and see that im not runnin any un-needed processes? (besides the apache/mysql/sshd)
i just have the server so i can ssh to it and test scripts i make and maybe some servers

http://aonic.net:88/~aonic/proc.txt

thx

woolsherpahat · Guru Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 347

Well depending on how far you want to take it you could probably get by with only three virtual terms. I think you can comment them out in /etc/inittab under the section named #TERMINALS if my memory serves correctly. This ought to get you a minute piece of ram freed.
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WhyteWolf · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:42 am Post subject:

well ... if you wanted tho it's not needed ... if your not going to be useing all 6 of the terminals or not loggin into the computer through a pysical<sp?> terminal you could take out all but one of the agettys {comment them out in the inittab}

but they really don't use the cpu till someone trys logging in on the m and ushaly only a undetectable blip

but other wise thats a VERY clean ps list

you do have cron running ... but I would recomend leaving that going on all systems ... even a firewall cause it comes in handy to do clean up work that you might not be logged in for if set up right
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aonic · n00b Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 14

alright thanks for the help guys