On 21/06/06, Ian mu <mu.llamas at gmail.com> wrote: > The strange one was on the vmstat 5 suggestion, the r (waiting for runtime) > column is pretty much 0, if the load is > 1 shouldn't that be mostly > 1 > also, or am I misunderstanding the load definition? > > I.e currently load is 1.98 > > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- > ----cpu---- > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id > wa > 0 0 624 34652 66608 1059564 0 0 1 9 0 0 3 1 96 > 0 > 0 0 624 34436 66608 1059564 0 0 0 39 1207 2534 1 1 97 > 0 > 0 0 624 34268 66608 1059564 0 0 0 42 1202 2412 1 1 98 > 0 That looks like a lot of context switches to me, though I'm not sure if that's by virtue of the number or type of CPUs or the workload you're running. The most consistently busy boxes I have here rarely see more than 1-300 context switches and sit at a load average of 0.50, 0.67, 0.61. Will.