On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:57:16PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > It is the average number of processes in the 'R' (running/runnable) state > (or blocked on I/O). Very simple really. Unfortunately interpreting > these numbers is something of a black art. If your load average is > regularly over 1, you are losing performance and would benefit from more > power. If your load average is under 1, you still have performance to > spare.
Unless the processes that are driving up the load are niced to hell and gone. Like dnetc, for example. Also that is assuming 1 CPU, not 2 or 4. ;) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------