Strange

Hi !

I am experiencig problem with high load average on a much better hardware than before (when there was average of 2.00). The OS is Debian Stable. The only process involved in this situaton is a FTP server which is proftpd V1.2.10. I comparise both server, the old one which is 2.4Ghz Compaq Desktop 2GB ram, and the new one which is HyperThreaded 3Ghz DL360 Compaq Server 2GB ram and HW SCSI raid. Both proftpd configurations are totally the same, all modules linked with it are the same, traffic is the same (sent to both machine at the same time individually, about 70MB-minute).

But no matter that load average is 13.00, response time of the new Server is still much faster than the old one, so difference in speed is very high (giving points to server). The only thing bothering me is a high load average number.

What else can be the reason ?

top - 09:37:24 up 22:39, 2 users, load average: 13.56, 13.61, 13.48 Tasks: 64 total, 16 running, 48 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 36.2% us, 63.6% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.2% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 2076380k total, 505580k used, 1570800k free, 53624k buffers Swap: 2650684k total, 0k used, 2650684k free, 252036k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5717 sysuser 25 0 4916 2464 4080 R 16.6 0.1 164:14.57 proftpd 18963 sysuser 25 0 4916 2472 4080 R 16.2 0.1 150:53.89 proftpd 11145 sysuser 25 0 4912 2460 4080 R 15.8 0.1 228:28.34 proftpd 12115 sysuser 25 0 4916 2464 4080 R 14.5 0.1 222:56.07 proftpd 16706 sysuser 25 0 4916 2464 4080 R 12.5 0.1 207:24.66 proftpd 28687 sysuser 25 0 4916 2468 4080 R 12.5 0.1 179:23.34 proftpd 32646 sysuser 25 0 4916 2464 4080 R 12.5 0.1 171:39.01 proftpd 6723 sysuser 25 0 4912 2456 4080 R 12.1 0.1 259:16.75 proftpd 68 plus 16 sysuser 25 0 4916 2464 4080 R 12.1 0.1 170:49.08 proftpd 9287 sysuser 25 0 4916 2468 4080 R 12.1 0.1 159:41.02 proftpd 9847 sysuser 25 0 4916 2464 4080 R 12.1 0.1 159:02.37 proftpd