New system, higher active connections?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, H. Wade Minter wrote:

> We just moved our primary load balancer from an ancient Dell PowerApp 120 
> running Red Hat 7.3 to a newer Dell PowerEdge 750 running Fedora Core 5. 
> However, we're noticing something weird.
>
> Where before, we were seeing Active Connections in the 1-4 range even during 
> normal usage, we're now seeing them in the 12-16 range on average.  We've got 
> the same weighting on the new server as we did on the old.

someone else reported the same problem a little while ago. 
The only thing I can think is that RH has done something 
with the code that we don't know about. If your system is 
otherwise behaving OK, you could ignore it/recalibrate your 
ideas of what it does.

Joe
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