Re: (ot) What is load average?

2000-09-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:57:16PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: It is the average number of processes in the 'R' (running/runnable) state (or blocked on I/O). Very simple really. Unfortunately interpreting these numbers is something of a black art. If your load average is regularly over

Thanks! - Re: (ot) What is load average?

2000-05-23 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 07:19:40PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: You can find this information by grubbing about in /usr/src/linux/fs/proc/array.c excellent. Thanks for all the great answers! -Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key available from

(ot) What is load average?

2000-05-22 Thread Jonathan Lupa
This is certainly offtopic, but what does the following mean? Rankor:/$ cat /proc/loadavg 2.19 1.27 0.79 1/54 1667 I know that the first three are 5, 10, and 15 minute averages, but I'm not sure what load really is. I'm curious what those numbers represent and what reasonable values are for

Re: (ot) What is load average?

2000-05-22 Thread kmself
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 09:50:03PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: This is certainly offtopic, but what does the following mean? Rankor:/$ cat /proc/loadavg 2.19 1.27 0.79 1/54 1667 I know that the first three are 5, 10, and 15 minute averages, but I'm not sure what load really is. Number of

Re: (ot) What is load average?

2000-05-22 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Jonathan Lupa wrote: I know that the first three are 5, 10, and 15 minute averages, but I'm not sure what load really is. It is the average number of processes in the 'R' (running/runnable) state (or blocked on I/O). Very simple really. Unfortunately interpreting these

Re: (ot) What is load average?

2000-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:57:16PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: It is the average number of processes in the 'R' (running/runnable) state (or blocked on I/O). Very simple really. Unfortunately interpreting these numbers is something of a black art. If your load average is regularly over