[Asterisk-Users] voip-info.org unreliable lately?

[Walt Reed]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 01:46:39PM -0700, Frank Mayhar said:
> On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 16:05 -0400, Walt Reed wrote:
> > (slow disk can cause high load average numbers as you spend
> > all your time in I/O Wait.)
> 
> Um, no.  At least in traditional Unix (meaning System V and the BSDs),
> the "load average" is the average length of the run queue.  By
> definition, if a process is asleep waiting for I/O to complete (as is
> the case for disk), it is _not_ on the run queue, and so doesn't
> contribute to load average.

On linux (at least RHEL3) it sure as heck does. I see it VERY frequently
on my RHEL3 boxes - especially when dealing with huge postgres DB's
(300G). For one application, moving off local disk onto a SAN sped up
the I/O and my load averages went from 40 to .2