[GRLUG] Hosting ideas

[Tim Schmidt]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I'm not certain running nice on the mysqldump process would be a good
>  idea.  The server's load average is about 3.  I'm not sure the
>  mysqldump process would get much love under those conditions.  Then
>  again, cpuinfo tells me there are lots of cores on the box.  Does the
>  load average mean there are 3 processes waiting on each core, or only
>  three processes total in all the runqueues (averaged over time)?

Correct, load must be divided by the number of CPUs to get a valid
measure.  In other words:

Load / # of CPUs, if > 1, means you need more CPUs / faster disk I/O /
more RAM / something else.

--tim