22 Jun
2004
22 Jun
'04
3:30 p.m.
On 22.6.2004, at 12:01, Matthias Andree wrote:
Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi writes:
0.99.10 indexes aren't too good, but I still find it a bit strange that Cyrus takes something like 10x less load. I'd think most of it has to do
Load is the number of processes that are ready to run or running IIRC, hence, iowait contributes to the load without actually doing anything useful besides waiting for the hardware...
Yes, but I/O wait is exactly where the problem is. Your mails aren't coming any faster with 0.1% CPU load than with 99% CPU load if I/O is the bottleneck.