Re: [tlug] load averge question

[Jean-Christian Imbeault <jc@example.com>]

A. Sajjad Zaidi wrote:
> 
> How odd is odd? If its something like 4am, then its daily cronjobs. At
> other times, it could be other cronjobs.

So true, I've been caught once by a cron job (locate's db update) run at 
6am once before ... but these odd times are things like 11am, 1pm, 3pm, 
7pm ...

> Could be. Why don't you set the script so whenever the load goes above a
> certain number, it prints a list of processes and the resources they are
> taking up?

Good idea. I just added to my script so that I get the number of apache 
process running along with the load average every 5 seconds.

But would apache starting up 64 servers (what I have MinSpare set to) 
spike the load up from 0.2 to 7 in less than 2 minutes??

When this server has about 600 apache processes running it's load 
average is only about 0.3 ... I can't for the life of me imagine what 
the machine is doing that would make the load go to 7.

Jc