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

[Frank Mayhar]

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.

A high load average comes from having too many processes runnable.
Having fast disks won't help if your processes are CPU-bound.
-- 
Frank Mayhar, x3057
fmayhar at troikanetworks.com