[thelist] how high constitutes troublesome load average.

Bob Meetin bobm at dottedi.biz
Thu Oct 8 14:12:44 CDT 2009


I have a couple sites on a shared hosting server which commonly runs a 
little slow in my opinion and if I check I see what I think is high load 
average, but which is probably somewhat relative.  With data driven 
sites (CMS) I tend to think performance is more critical than with 
static, HTML sites.  But anyway, how high is unreasonal?

06:55:01 up 51 days, 9:15, 2 users, load average: 2.50, 3.33, 4.18
08:05:02 up 51 days, 10:25, 2 users, load average: 10.13, 10.50, 8.81
08:30:02 up 51 days, 10:50, 1 user, load average: 19.05, 12.61, 9.62
11:32:01 up 51 days, 13:52, 2 users, load average: 35.37, 26.39, 17.53

-Bob




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