On Monday 22 September 2003 10:46 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ricardo's signature wrote this in a message on Saturday morning (00:50:14): > =-=-= > Sat, 20 Sep 2003 00:45:00 -0300 > 00:45:00 up 2 days, 13:35, 3 users, load average: 1.86, 1.72, 1.37 > =-=-= > What is this load average? I thought that it was a percentage of CPU use, > but then he's at 186%, so that's obviously wrong (unless he typed this as > a joke . . .). Also, what are the other 2 values? They seem related to > the first, I'm thinking [avg last minute], [avg last hour]
A load average of 2 means that there are 2 jobs ready to run whenever the CPU is ready to run one. A load average of .5 means that half the time there is a job to run. Nothing wrong with >1, on my system I run setiathome and use it to consume my spare cycles, giving me uptimes around 1.25 or so most of the time. The numbers reported by uptime are for 1 minute, 5 minutes and 15 minutes.
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