Fred Derf Veteran Posted May 10, 2004 Veteran Share Posted May 10, 2004 If the server load reports greater than 25.0 you get Server Busy errors. If you continue to hit refresh (okay probably not a friendly thing to do given the circumstance) you can see the server load drop closer and closer to 25 and once it goes beneith 25 it displays your request. I would have expected the server load to be a relative number out of 100 but I guess that 25 = 100% busy time (or the network equivilent). Are we to assume that if we see a server load of 12.5 that the server is at 50% capacity? Okay, just asking this question will probably encourage the mods to disable the stats from being displayed. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero1 Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 Its not done in %, not really sure what its done in :\ It gives the "server busy" error, because, without it the server would just become completley unusable to anyone (which isnt very useful if you are an admin i guess :p) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWatchDawg Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 and I didnt break it this time ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted May 11, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted May 11, 2004 Its not done in %, not really sure what its done in :\It gives the "server busy" error, because, without it the server would just become completley unusable to anyone (which isnt very useful if you are an admin i guess :p) Yes obviously it would get too busy to say, er.. too busy. The point is, if the server load is a percentage, are some board functions cut off once we hit 25% capacity? If so then 75% leeway seems like a lot of breathing room. The server load rarely goes over 40.0 or so. It is slightly useful to us because when we see it climbing near 25.0 then we can expect server busy messages to be not far off. For example, the load is now 2.68 so I'm not concerned. It was 39.95 a few seconds ago... Maybe some people moved on to real life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 This is the second time it's gotten busy for me today, must be one of those days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretforce Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 I only think its when admins are upgrading somthing on the server (or backing up), Dont forget neowin is hosted on a server that most hosting companys dont even have that spec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DsnBehind Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 Today I saw it reach 69.97. :o :o :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Baby Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 actully 1 is full load for 1 processor so if you have 2 processes you can have a max server load of 2 brfore stuff has the wait the o so small time till it gets to it - as far as i know thats the general thing to it - but there are loads of stuff that matters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexW Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 hmm my servers dont even hit 0.04 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 Smiffy thats wrong, im sure. My server has only once gone high load, and that was to 3, now if what you say is true, thats impossible. If you want to find out more google "Unix Load" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 Acceptable server load is defined by the admins in the AdminCP. It must be set at 25. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wannes Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 Today I saw it reach 69.97. :o :o :o did you get laid? proberly just an illusion. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 ,May 11 2004, 08:41] did you get laid? proberly just an illusion. :p You should get laid. I've seen it that high. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 I've seen that load at about 20 before and it was still running nice and fast for me. This server is a huge improvement over that pile of **** EV1 server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma-penguin Veteran Posted May 11, 2004 Veteran Share Posted May 11, 2004 yeah ive seen this thing keep chugging along even at 20-30(around there she goes bang) loads its great that it does keep going.. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickg78 Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 The server load should reach 1.00 for single processor systems or 2.00 for dual processor systems. Everything above this is too high Now it says "Server Load: 0.32" and this is normal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wannes Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 You should get laid. I've seen it that high. :p oh shut up. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivion Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 we sure have quite a lot of activity going on here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wannes Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 we sure have quite a lot of activity going on here are you serious? damn never noticed. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted May 11, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted May 11, 2004 Acceptable server load is defined by the admins in the AdminCP. It must be set at 25. I was just wondering if this cut off was set a little too early. The site seems to work very quickly right up to the server busy message. Am I to assume that if the server load reaches 100.0 then the server would be too busy to display its too busy message? Do we ever spike above 70? Above 40 seems pretty rare to me. Above 25 happens enough to be annoying. Not that I'm complaining. I'm, er, helping. Yea, helping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero1 Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 Well, i've seen our server @ around 980 a while back due to some complications... believe me, you dont want neowin like that :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pringlex Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 The 'server load' figure is nothing to do with a percentage. It represents how many processes there are in the run queue, i.e. how many tasks are waiting to be processed. So, for example, if the server load is 10, then there are 9 (because it's processing one at the moment) processes that are all waiting for a piece of the action. On a server with 2 CPUs, such as Neowin's, a load of 2 means that each processor is constantly doing something, but there is nothing else waiting. Anything beneath 2 means that one (or both) CPUs are idle some of the time. (A Good Thing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivand Posted May 14, 2004 Share Posted May 14, 2004 Today I saw it reach 69.97. :o :o :o I saw it at 70.00 :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldo Posted May 14, 2004 Share Posted May 14, 2004 Whenever server load is over 1, it means that the CPU (well, a multitude of factors, but CPU is the primary one) is running at 100% load and queuing other tasks until their is spare CPU time and more tasks can be executed. Unix goodness in action, folks :p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma-penguin Veteran Posted May 19, 2004 Veteran Share Posted May 19, 2004 im sorry to bring this topic back up.. but starting a new thread is pointless.. anyways about 5 minutes ago the server load reached [ Server Load: 93.99 ] this is becoming a regular occurance, not that im complaining or anything.. but its getting very regularis this becuase of autopatcher downloads or something else.. becuase we never really got a response from any of the admins about this, just comments on what server load is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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