What does the word "load average" mean in the command "top"?
I get strange high load, I use top to watch the processess, they are just taking small CPU time, but the load is so high.
Any idea?
Leo
18:16:12 up 26 days, 16:55, 1 user, load average: 1.39, 1.18, 0.79
135 processes: 134 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 7.2% user 2.4% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 89.2% idle
CPU1 states: 3.1% user 1.3% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 94.4% idle
Mem: 513116k av, 506556k used, 6560k free, 0k shrd, 9252k buff
426816k actv, 23544k in_d, 10924k in_c
Swap: 1052216k av, 526108k used, 526108k free 36312k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
2152 root 15 0 1268 140 72 S 12.9 0.0 25:28 0 httpd
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 1.1 0.0 10:18 1 kswapd
1213 mysql 15 0 13632 7840 1056 S 0.7 1.5 191:35 0 mysqld
28891 root 15 0 980 980 716 R 0.3 0.1 0:00 1 top
189 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.1 0.0 2:29 0 kjournald
1 root 16 0 104 76 52 S 0.0 0.0 0:26 1 init-- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
