On 09/22/2011 04:29 PM, Mark Felder wrote:
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:22:43 -0500, Henry M <henr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on what the
load
average on top/uptime is actually displaying?
Load average is "average number of processes in the run queue" for the
1, 5, and 15 minute intervals. If you have a quad core CPU a 4.00 load
average means you've been keeping the CPU busy at 100%.
Not exactly as I understand it....IO (disk, network or whatever) affects
it too...
It is the number of task waiting in queue to be run....but IO is
important...if 2 processes are waiting for IO and it is completely
saturated they will be kept in queue so load will get higher
I think there are other things that affect load average but are over my
current knowledge...
Regards
Rodrigo Gonzalez
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