On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:09:41PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > isn't 2.00 more like 2% ? It is US notation where . is a decimal separator. > Not ?
You have the notation correct, but load average and CPU utilization are not directly related. Load average is the average number of processes that are waiting on system resources over a certain time period; they could be waiting for CPU, for I/O, or for other resources. (CPU does tend to be the biggest bottleneck, though, so a basic rule of thumb is that you usually don't want load to be much greater than the number of CPUs in the box. The machine I'm using starts killing off processes if load exceeds 6 or 7; I wouldn't want to see it hit 100...) -- Linux will do for applications what the Internet did for networks. - IBM, "Peace, Love, and Linux" Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r y+