[Cialug] load average+upgrade

Tue Jul 3 11:43:51 CDT 2007

What is causing the load to be high?  'top' can show you what's taking
the most CPU.

Dan

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 11:33 -0500, James Shoemaker wrote:
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>   I have a linux box (my webcam box) that is constantly at a 2.5-3.5
> load average and can't keep up with the load.  It is an obviously
> overworked K6-2 500, would swapping it to a PII-350 get it to acceptable
> performance, or do I need something more powerful (I have the PII laying
> around, faster would involve money)?  I would use one of the other
> servers, but none of them have the spare slots for the video capture cards.
> 
> James
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