[Mimedefang] What hardware are you running?

[Ben Kamen]

Intel hardware.. Gotta love it.

I've been on RS/6000's that are pegged and still responsive.

I have a feeling it's a matter of the system...

I usually look at the User/System/Wait numbers. They look like:

CPU: User  2.5% Sys  1.0% Wait  0.0% Idle 96.5%   Refresh:  2.00 s
0%             25%              50%               75%              100%
 >>>>>=====-----------------------


If you're looking at:

Runnable (Swap-in) processes  0.00 (0.00)  load average:  0.00,  0.04,  0.06

It should be a max of 1 per CPU.

If you're heigher than that - I think you have a problem deeper than 
I've ever seen. :)



Kris Deugau wrote:

> Ben Kamen wrote:
> 
>>So some might ask the question: 17-20%? What are you saving the other
>>80% for? hehehe... Although, I'm not sure if 20% is supposed to be only
>>MIMEdefang traffic or ??? you didn't list that.
>>
> 
> As far as I understand the "load average" numbers, 17-20 means "%1700 to
> %2000".
> 
> The numbers represent the number of "active processes" waiting for CPU
> time or executing.
> 
> On most of the x86 boxen (single-CPU) I've worked with over the last few
> years, any load over 10 starts showing lag on the console;  anything
> over 15 is downright unresponsive, and anything over about 20-25 is
> effectively locked up.
> 
> -kgd
>