Re: [ilugd] Uptime

2007-11-22 Thread Kazim Zaidi
On 22/11/2007, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to see this in action, do the following on a relatively unloaded system: - - Open up one terminal and run: sar -u 1 1 - - Open up another terminal and run: ls -lR / /dev/null Watch the %iowait times in the sar output go up

Re: [ilugd] Uptime

2007-11-21 Thread Saleem Ansari
From the man pages of uptime, you get Print the current time, the length of time the system has been up, the number of users on the system, and the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. The above does not seem to match on my system (Ubuntu Feisty). $

Re: [ilugd] Uptime

2007-11-21 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:42:13PM +, Yashpal Nagar wrote: | Hi All, | | From the man pages of uptime, you get | | Print the current time, the length of time the system has been up, | the number of users on the system, and the average

Re: [ilugd] Uptime

2007-11-21 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 21 Nov 2007, Yashpal Nagar wrote: Hi All, From the man pages of uptime, you get Print the current time, the length of time the system has been up, the number of users on the system, and the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. But when

Re: [ilugd] Uptime

2007-11-21 Thread Yashpal Nagar
Saleem Ansari wrote: Read here for detailed explanation of Load Averages. http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/display/5/index.htm Very interesting to know the difference between cpu utilization and load. Do you also know where are the Dr. Gunther's Quiz answers?

Re: [ilugd] Uptime

2007-11-21 Thread Yashpal Nagar
Raj Mathur wrote: So in a sense the load average is a measure of the load on the system. Higher load averages mean that the processor is unable to handle the demands put onto it by the tasks running in the system. However, there are no fixed measures for defining what load average is high

Re: [ilugd] Uptime

2007-11-21 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 Nov 2007, Yashpal Nagar wrote: Raj Mathur wrote: So in a sense the load average is a measure of the load on the system. Higher load averages mean that the processor is unable to handle the demands put onto it by the tasks running

Re: [ilugd] Uptime

2007-11-21 Thread Kazim Zaidi
On 22/11/2007, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] So to sum up: Times when the CPU is executing user code is counted in %user. Times when the CPU is executing a system call (or running any other kernel code) is counted in %system. Times when the CPU is waiting for some I/O to

Re: [ilugd] Uptime

2007-11-21 Thread Norat Saraswat
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Re: [ilugd] Uptime

2007-11-21 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 Nov 2007, Kazim Zaidi wrote: On 22/11/2007, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] So to sum up: Times when the CPU is executing user code is counted in %user. Times when the CPU is executing a system call (or running any