Load on our new dedicated PIII 800

[Susan]

I'm crackin' up. I just tested the uptime and load averages on our new dedicated server. Now I know that our gals aren't all on the boards right now, but the load average cracked me up. (18 users on one VB and 3 on the other on this server.)

10:56pm up 2 days, 11:29, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

[werehere]

It looks like you will be ok! ;)

[Susan]

And this morning with 64 on the boards,

8:25am up 2 days, 20:58, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.04, 0.01

What a relief it is to not see load averages of 7 and 8. <whew>

[Susan]

Another question here, too, if someone knows. We ordered a single processor machine but top is showing a CPU0 and a CPU1. That's dual processors, isn't it? Here's top:
8:29am up 2 days, 21:02, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.07, 0.02
86 processes: 85 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 0.4% user, 2.0% system, 0.0% nice, 97.0% idle
CPU1 states: 1.2% user, 0.5% system, 0.0% nice, 97.2% idle
Mem: 517032K av, 457816K used, 59216K free, 99680K shrd, 268228K buff
Swap: 265032K av, 0K used, 265032K free 112432K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
20908 apache 4 0 6244 6244 4172 S 1.1 1.2 0:04 httpsd
20939 apache 3 0 5884 5884 4168 S 1.1 1.1 0:03 httpsd
21295 root 16 0 1044 1044 816 R 0.9 0.2 0:00 top
21059 mysql 2 0 9820 9820 1500 S 0.5 1.8 0:02 mysqld
589 root 18 0 4320 4320 4180 S 0.3 0.8 0:58 httpsd
20912 mysql 1 0 9820 9820 1500 S 0.3 1.8 0:03 mysqld
3 root 2 0 0 0 0 SW 0.1 0.0 2:01 kupdate
21163 root 1 0 864 864 724 S 0.1 0.1 0:00 in.telnetd
21297 apache 13 0 4352 4352 4212 S 0.1 0.8 0:00 httpsd
21298 apache 17 0 4352 4352 4212 S 0.1 0.8 0:00 httpsd
1 root 0 0 536 536 468 S 0.0 0.1 1:30 init
2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:05 kflushd
4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kpiod
5 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:01 kswapd
6 root -20 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0

[John]

Looks like you've got yourself two CPUs for the price of one. Don't tell your host ;)

I am not a total expert, but I would be pretty certain that you have two processors.

John

[Shak]

cat /proc/cpuinfo

Type that at the telnet prompt, if it shows 2 outputs you have 2. It will also tell you the speed they are.

[Susan]

Thanks Shak...there are 2....both Intel PIII (coppermine) 801.834 mhz processors. WOW....looks like we got a DEAL! No wonder the load averages are so low. :)