NCS and 'top' load average

[changju]

I am authorized to say that SP2 will be available in Q4 (11/09 - 1/10).

As for why NCS increases server load, we depend on other components for process/thread management and NCS has no control. I think NCS threads/processes are reported to the OS differently.

Starting from SP2, we switch to Linux native APIs.

Best regards,

Changju

On an OES2 SLES server running NCS, single CPU core, 'rcnovell-ncs start' sees the "Load average" in 'top' got from .0x-.2x up to 5.x. This happens on all my servers running NCS.

'rcnovell-ncs stop' and "Load average" calms back down.

What does NCS do that causes "Load average" to increase by 5 (presumably indicating a fivefold increase in resource load) when the service is loaded?


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