[aklug] Reasonable average server load?

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Question for you sys-admin types: If you were running a farm of web
servers, what would you think would be a reasonable average CPU load?

Reason I ask: I manage my web sites with Bluehost over ssh, but more and
more lately, when I log in over SSH, everything I do on the connection
runs really slow. For example, starting Emacs takes so long that I
finally gave up and switched to ed, and even ed needs one to two seconds
per command.

Anyway, I want to officially complain about it, but I also want to look
like I know what I'm talking about. I can run top, and it shows a whole
lot of PHP and MySQL processes, and a CPU load oscillating between about
20% and 50%. Is that an ideal CPU load? Is there better statistic that I
should be looking at?

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Christopher Howard
http://linuxprogrammingforums.com
http://indicium.us
http://theologia.indicium.us

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Received on Wed Jun 23 11:15:53 2010