Hi all,

I´ve read that the average load a server could handle is 1 x each proccessor it has, could it be? In that case, with a Dual Xeon what load could my server handle, 2 or 4?

I really didn´t know how many cpus has this machine. I suppose that 2, but when I run a top command I get this:

top - 09:25:27 up 15:00, 1 user, load average: 1.20, 1.29, 1.33
Tasks: 294 total, 1 running, 287 sleeping, 4 stopped, 2 zombie
Cpu0 : 10.1% us, 8.0% sy, 0.5% ni, 79.7% id, 1.5% wa, 0.2% hi, 0.0% si
Cpu1 : 7.1% us, 5.0% sy, 0.6% ni, 82.4% id, 5.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Cpu2 : 5.1% us, 2.7% sy, 0.9% ni, 90.6% id, 0.7% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Cpu3 : 3.7% us, 2.1% sy, 0.8% ni, 91.1% id, 2.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 3115184k total, 2706888k used, 408296k free, 360164k buffers
Swap: 2048276k total, 80k used, 2048196k free, 1041676k cached


4 cpus listed...

Any idea? Thanks in advance, Simon.

It has 2 CPU's, because it has hyperthreading it thinks it has 4. The loads all depends on what is running, 1.2 or so it's too bad and that machine should handle it fine

In my experience I find that "slow" servers do not handle high loads well, but when I purchased a "fast" server, I found that even at higher loads it would perform as if there wasn't much load at all. Go fast or go home!