msys/fla

msys/fla

[Chris Fowler]

Hello,

Maybe someone can shed some light on something that I'm seeing.  I have 2
systems.  One loads the software from cdrom and the other from a 32MB
DOC2000.  I use the first for testing.  On the 2nd I appear to get high load
averages.  I'm not sure where it is coming from since most of the software
on the unit is server and waits for connections.  When I do a process
listing I see 2 processes:

msys/fla
msys/flb

I'm not sure what they are but maybe someone here will know.  After loading,
I only use my DOC to store the sw and saved configuration.

Thanks,
Chris

Re: msys/fla

[kira brown]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Chris Fowler wrote:

> DOC2000.  I use the first for testing.  On the 2nd I appear to get high load
> averages.

Why does this worry you?

Load averages are not really meaningful-  all they signify is the number
of processes that are blocked.  Blocked processes are an indicator that
your IO world isn't fast enough to satisfy your processor;  and indeed, if
you're forcing the flash to write any volume of data, and thus to erase
frequently, your storage is going to be blocking on you as the Flash is
garbage collected, erased and rewritten.

kira.