performance under heavy load

[Godwin Stewart]

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On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:58:08 -0500, Vlad <marchenko at gmail.com> wrote:

> to be fair, I should note that as admin / user of few tens of servers
> running both systems, I can assure you that if your linux "loses
> control" with LA ~ 10, then something is seriously wrong with that
> server and it's not because of the linux (rather it's hardware or
> wrong kernel configuration).

Agreed.

If you look at the details on http://www.kernel.org, you'll see that the
server is running Linux-2.6 and that the load average is constantly around
200.

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