Virtual server load (Re: [Techtalk] Logging server load)

[Mary Gardiner]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:31:46AM +1000, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> Most of the time the response of the server is great.  However, occasionally 
> the load goes through the roof.  Well, I exagerate a little - but it gets up 
> to 3 or 4.  This is not cpu load (which is still below 10% at the time), just 
> the load average.

This may not necessarily be your virtual machine: load on the parent 
server will cause your process queue to grow as well. In particular, the 
@daily and @weekly cron jobs will run on all virtual servers at once 
unless they've applied a random factor to the trigger time.

-Mary