I think I need a faster box:
top - 18:11:38 up 195 days, 23:17, 7 users, load average: 10.17, 5.32, 5.43 Tasks: 477 total, 13 running, 462 sleeping, 1 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 13.6% user, 86.4% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 514032k total, 511800k used, 2232k free, 2344k buffers Swap: 401584k total, 401584k used, 0k free, 31720k cached
Re:memory
nicholas on 2003-10-23T18:23:42
Am I right in guessing that killing all spammers would be a more satisfying solution to the load problem? Can we reclassify them as terrorists and get someone else to do the dirty work?
Heck, why don't we swap them for the current detainees in Gauntanamo Bay? I think that the excahange would bring visible improvement to many people's lives.
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jhi on 2003-10-23T18:32:40
s/Gaun/Guan/ But yes, it would be quite short distance even from Florida, the spamming state of the world, to Cuba...
Re:memory
Matts on 2003-10-23T22:00:58
Actually I think I might rather have the pleasure of killing the spammers myself;-)
(after a little torture of course).Re:memory
jhi on 2003-10-23T18:30:58
Memory would help, yes, but adding swap wouldn't necessarily. Swap helps one to have more jobs or bigger jobs, but not faster jobs.
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hfb on 2003-10-23T19:41:34
not to mention top is just not a tool for system performance. It's like taking only your leg to the doctor for a flu diagnosis. Look at your IO and paging....and what might be jumping up the load queue like that. So many websites in the boom were on these giant E450s when most of the planet could have run on cheap U1s or PCs because noone wanted to look at what was really going on.Re:memory
chromatic on 2003-10-23T19:45:27
You could rephrase that last sentence slightly and still be accurate!
So many websites were in the boom because no one wanted to look at what was really going on.
