[ULTRAMONKEY-USERS] Load Average always 1

[Matthew Newton]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:24:22AM +0200, diego wrote:
> I've just followed the instruction on the ultramonkey web site to 
> configure a system for high availability and load balancing, as the one 
> showed here http://www.ultramonkey.org/3/topologies/ha-lb-eg.html
> 
> The only difference between my configuration and the one showed at that 
> page, is that I used the new Debian Etch distro, so there is no need to 
> install ultramonkey package, but I only have installed the separate 
...
> PS: all the used machines are dedicated balancers, so no other service 
> is running on them...

Sounds very similar to the set-up that I have - two dedicated
load balancers, although these are in the "High Capacity Highly
Availability and Load Balancing" topology.

> After some time so the load average of the machine shown by "top" 
> command is "1.00, 1.00, 1.00".

I hadn't really thought about it before, but the servers here do
exactly the same thing. They've been working pretty much
flawlessly since December, though, so I don't think it matters.

That doesn't help explaining _why_, but at least you don't need to
worry about it ;-).

Cheers,

Matthew


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