More Dreamhost wankery

[giza]

[baachus]$ uptime
08:20:13 up 49 days, 2:08, 1 user, load average: 952.32, 740.37, 397.97

Wow, a load of 952... I think that's a record high. Come on Dreamhost, suck just a little harder so you can get to 1,000! Maybe the box will actually catch on fire at that point...

Comments

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

What the heck is the machine doing to get such a high load average?

We sometimes see that around here, but usually it's because some NFS server has gone down and dozens of processes are stuck in IOWAIT...

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

Hmm. 49 days . . . that isn't a Windows 98 box masquerading as *IX?

[taral.livejournal.com]

Welcome to why including processes blocked on I/O in load average is dumb.

[scs-11.livejournal.com]

952.32. Really, it's the .32 that gets me. That means their load measuring is accurate to one part in 100,000, right?

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

How can one user cause *that* much latency?