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sytringy05 on Aug 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

My company took over production support of an ESB from another company for a client a couple of years ago. The worker nodes had about 100 JVMs running on it and its resting Load Avg was around 30. This on a 2 CPU RHEL vm.

Out of morbid curiosity, I restarted one of the test servers and ran top. Load Avg was in the order of 2200 for about 3 hours.

The worst part was that the guys we took it over from didn't even think it was a problem.

simtel20 on Aug 10, 2017 [–]

What was the business impact of the high load? When reducing the load improves the company's bottom line, it should absolutely be pursued.

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