[geeks] Linux disparity

[James]

check your broadcast traffic on your network. Remember, broadcasts are 
treated like a unicast destined for your machine and will interupt 
everything for servicing.

At 02:20 AM 12/18/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>
> > Hey, on my linux machine, CPU meters register barely anything, yet I
> > have a very high system load (over 2).  Anyone know why this might be?
>
>If you're doing a lot of IO, it could be that the CPU is too busy
>servicing interrupts.  I'm sure there's a program that will show you
>this, but I wouldn't know what it is on Linux (iostat? vmstat?).
>
> > I'm doing a fair amount of network copying in the background, but
> > nothing heavy over an SSH link.  Is it perhaps being caused by a 3COM
> > PCI ethernet card?  I seem to remeber people dissing them here.
>
>Only if the 3com card keeps distracting the CPU.
>
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>Jonathan Patschke
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