Things went horribly wahoonie-shaped at around 2pm. Looking at the log
forumosa.com/taiwan/uptime.php
(keeping in mind that the time on the server is GMT, and we are GMT+8)
the load average went sky-high for a few minutes there.
I’m wondering why the server does this. It seems to happen around the xx:00’s and the xx:20’s. There don’t appear to be any cron jobs on the server. If this is just a common time for classes to break and teachers to rush to their terminals to check Forumosa for the latest on deportations, or whatever, then fine, but. . . .
07:04:01 up 4 days, 14:21, 0 users, load average: 1.75, 3.18, 5.03
07:05:01 up 4 days, 14:22, 0 users, load average: 1.13, 2.76, 4.77
07:06:01 up 4 days, 14:23, 0 users, load average: 1.34, 2.49, 4.55
07:07:01 up 4 days, 14:24, 0 users, load average: 1.73, 2.41, 4.39
07:08:01 up 4 days, 14:25, 0 users, load average: 1.47, 2.20, 4.19
07:09:02 up 4 days, 14:26, 0 users, load average: 2.11, 2.25, 4.08
07:10:02 up 4 days, 14:27, 0 users, load average: 12.02, 4.62, 4.75
07:11:04 up 4 days, 14:28, 0 users, load average: 28.00, 9.86, 6.50
07:12:01 up 4 days, 14:29, 0 users, load average: 25.35, 13.06, 7.85
07:13:04 up 4 days, 14:30, 0 users, load average: 20.16, 13.94, 8.49
07:14:01 up 4 days, 14:31, 0 users, load average: 26.58, 17.31, 10.01
07:15:01 up 4 days, 14:32, 0 users, load average: 20.65, 17.32, 10.47
07:16:02 up 4 days, 14:33, 0 users, load average: 12.57, 15.68, 10.34
07:17:01 up 4 days, 14:34, 0 users, load average: 7.91, 13.87, 10.05
07:18:01 up 4 days, 14:35, 0 users, load average: 3.65, 11.55, 9.49
07:19:02 up 4 days, 14:36, 0 users, load average: 2.61, 9.76, 9.00
07:20:01 up 4 days, 14:37, 0 users, load average: 2.68, 8.46, 8.60
07:21:02 up 4 days, 14:38, 0 users, load average: 3.30, 7.50, 8.25
07:22:01 up 4 days, 14:39, 0 users, load average: 6.02, 7.56, 8.23
07:23:01 up 4 days, 14:40, 0 users, load average: 3.24, 6.49, 7.82
07:24:01 up 4 days, 14:41, 0 users, load average: 2.00, 5.56, 7.41
07:25:01 up 4 days, 14:42, 0 users, load average: 2.36, 4.96, 7.09
07:26:01 up 4 days, 14:43, 0 users, load average: 2.48, 4.55, 6.81
07:27:02 up 4 days, 14:44, 0 users, load average: 4.74, 4.86, 6.78
07:28:01 up 4 days, 14:45, 0 users, load average: 4.73, 4.84, 6.65
07:29:01 up 4 days, 14:46, 0 users, load average: 4.52, 4.87, 6.55
07:30:02 up 4 days, 14:47, 0 users, load average: 2.52, 4.23, 6.23
07:31:02 up 4 days, 14:48, 0 users, load average: 3.66, 4.16, 6.07
07:32:01 up 4 days, 14:49, 0 users, load average: 4.05, 4.30, 6.00
07:33:01 up 4 days, 14:50, 0 users, load average: 2.18, 3.70, 5.69
07:34:01 up 4 days, 14:51, 0 users, load average: 1.38, 3.19, 5.38