[Bug 574910] Re: High load averages on Lucid while idling

[Chris]

Load average is just a number.  Aside from your "accounting errors"
there are fundamental  performance issues.  How they relate I do not
know.  Since none of the "usual suspects"  except for load average show
up as issues (disk i/o, network i/o, memory swapping, etc) for me to
troubleshoot (or kill -9).

When my AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 system with 4GB or ram and mirrored
SATA drives running a gust vm of 10.04 (512MB) and the guest 10.04
system has less performance than my Sparc 10 (128MB)  did in 1999 I
would call that odd.    My other guests running 9.04 and 9.10 are
running fine.  (Stop me if written this before)

If it is pure accounting errors, tell me what I should tune in my system
to make the performance better and I will check it out. Once my system
is running fine, I can ignore load average as I would a broken indicator
on a instrument panel.   As of right now I have no data to even go on to
"tune" my system other than load averages going "wonky" for no apparent
reason on idle systems.


Seriously?   You think all of us are having a conniption over a number
rather than performance?   I am getting the impression that  the people
form Ubuntu think this is not an issue.   Or that we are "dreaming"
about our performance issues.    I think I have documented my issues
reasonably well considering I am using "live" systems rather than test
VMs.    I didn't do an FDA approved 'blue book' series of tests like I
have in other jobs I have had but I did the best I could given the fact
I have a day job to attend to.

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High load averages on Lucid while idling
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574910
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