Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751386AbWEIF2D (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 01:28:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751388AbWEIF2D (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 01:28:03 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.197]:42848 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751386AbWEIF2C (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 01:28:02 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:x-mimeole:in-reply-to:thread-index; b=ptmp7vrj2uCsRCeg6KexUQ5ueV70lYwe80iVcB+hY6a8unR021aQJ+JXiJf85/eCvmSVcjx8fafU7QN3iINzgJTjK7XPLkwGEI6DeN2zn/Licj5Oe+A4KJU0rgj+C7tGvKokHMXS+uM0tOCqA80YsKIt1kYBYlP0N4abNyifXSE= From: "Hua Zhong" To: "'Nick Piggin'" , "'Arjan van de Ven'" Cc: "'Erik Mouw'" , "'Martin J. Bligh'" , "'Andrew Morton'" , "'Jason Schoonover'" , Subject: RE: High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3 Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 22:27:52 -0700 Message-ID: <005301c67329$52b5fe30$0200a8c0@nuitysystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 In-Reply-To: <44601E9C.2010802@yahoo.com.au> Thread-index: AcZzJxKf4UjKgWgRSGCUEf+iHXm+KgAAf+qg Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 723 Lines: 17 > A global loadavg isn't too good anyway, as everyone has > observed, there are many independant resources. But my point > is that it isn't going away while apps still use it, so my > point is that this might be an easy way to improve it. It's not just those MTA's using it. Worse, many watchdog implementations use it too, and they will reload the box if the load is too high. So we do need some ways to make the loadavg more meaningful or at least more predictable. Hua - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/