"The system load average is the sum of the number of runnable entities queued to the available processors and the number of runnable entities running on the available processors averaged over a period of time. The way in which the load average is calculated is operating system specific but is typically a damped time-dependent average."
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/management/OperatingSystemMXBean.html#getSystemLoadAverage() On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Udara Liyanage <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Doc[1] says the formula to calculate loadAverage is as below. > > (loadAvg/cores)*100 > > Is loadAvg same as CPU usage we get when "top" command is executed? > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/STRATOS/4.0.0+Sample+Auto-scaling+Policy+Definition > -- > > Udara Liyanage > Software Engineer > WSO2, Inc.: http://wso2.com > lean. enterprise. middleware > > web: http://udaraliyanage.wordpress.com > phone: +94 71 443 6897 > -- Imesh Gunaratne Technical Lead, WSO2 Committer & PPMC Member, Apache Stratos
