Epic Load Average

[Midorikawa]

We had a server getting a DDoS, and while tracking down the source, we noticed the load average getting rather high. We use a throttling mechanism that basically invalidates the load average, so this is by no means accurate. It's still funny to see:

21:06:37 up 2 days, 2:35, 6 users, load average: 19195.46, 9661.52, 4013.18

[Rapscallion]

Damn. When we were on the old server and suffering much downtime, we got over 90, nearly 100 at times, but that's incredible.

Rapscallion

[Hawaiian Eskimo]

Woah. If your load average is passing over 9000, you may have a small issue there.

[Midorikawa]

Woah. If your load average is passing over 9000, you may have a small issue there.

We're a shared hosting company that uses an in house throttling system to prevent any one user from drowning the server. Because of the way it works, the load average is a completely useless metric. The server was bogged down, but still running fine. That load average is about the equivalent of a 100.00 load average. This of course, doesn't mean that a load average above 19,000.00 doesn't bring a smile to my face every time I see it.