Re: [Exim] Exim is Unreasonably slow

On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 14:49 -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> Where did you get the mistaken idea that the mythical "load average"
> measurement has anything to do with actual throughput?
>
> Ignore the load avarage -- it cannot tell you anything really useful.

In Linux, processes stuck in I/O or Disk wait (D state) add to the
running process count. So in this case the load might be able to tell
something. That being, exactly what the rest of Greg's e-mail said, a
faster I/O subsystem is needed.

--
Chris