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

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Monday 05 April 2004 08:18, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> 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.

I suspect that this is what is happening, but I want to gather some hard 
evidence before making any assertions.

Thanks,

Rasjid.

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Rasjid Wilcox
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