Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slightly OT: CPU states

2003-10-08 Thread Sudev Barar
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 13:40, Peter Childs wrote: > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: > > > > > What does the load average in TOP mean? One of our user is trying > > > > to run a HUGE spreadsheet in open office. Running TOP I see that up > > > > to 97% of the CPU usage gets allot

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slightly OT: CPU states

2003-10-08 Thread Andy Rabagliati
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003, Peter Childs wrote: > While I'm here I am think of bigging some server(s) in the next > few months. Hmm > > We need to run > > LTSP (of course) > Postgres (Large busy database) > Our Software (in house written in Qt) > Jabber > Web > EMail > > Evetually we also

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slightly OT: CPU states

2003-10-08 Thread Peter Childs
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: > > > What does the load average in TOP mean? One of our user is trying > > > to run a HUGE spreadsheet in open office. Running TOP I see that up > > > to 97% of the CPU usage gets allotted and the CPU "Load Average" is > > > showing averages of

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slightly OT: CPU states

2003-10-08 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
> What does the load average in TOP mean? One of our user is trying > to run a HUGE spreadsheet in open office. Running TOP I see that up > to 97% of the CPU usage gets allotted and the CPU "Load Average" is > showing averages of 1, 5 & 15 minutes ranging between 3.8 ~ 1.2 I > want to know what thi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slightly OT: CPU states

2003-10-08 Thread Peter Childs
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Sudev Barar wrote: > What does the load average in TOP mean? One of our user is trying to run > a HUGE spreadsheet in open office. Running TOP I see that up to 97% of > the CPU usage gets allotted and the CPU "Load Average" is showing > averages of 1, 5 & 15 minutes ranging bet

[Ltsp-discuss] Slightly OT: CPU states

2003-10-07 Thread Sudev Barar
What does the load average in TOP mean? One of our user is trying to run a HUGE spreadsheet in open office. Running TOP I see that up to 97% of the CPU usage gets allotted and the CPU "Load Average" is showing averages of 1, 5 & 15 minutes ranging between 3.8 ~ 1.2 I want to know what this figure m