On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 11:09:13PM +0000, Minh Van wrote:
> > That figure you get with uptime is the load average 1,5, and 15 minutes ago.
> >
> > I think it's the average over that time of the number of runnable tasks.
> >
> > On one CPU, load average of 1.0 means 100% CPU usage, but this apparently
> > isn't a bad thing. It can be more efficient to be running two jobs at once
> > than sequentially.
> >
> > I think different system architectures make a big difference in the numbers
> > you get back. On my Mac OS X boxes, which use the mach_kernel, load averages
> > usually sit between 2 and 3 on a light load, whereas on my linux boxes it
> > rarely reaches 1.0. I think SunOS also automatically divides by the number
> > of CPUs as well.
>
> wow. if that's the case, then my box is overloaded:
>
> [mle@localhost 23:08:11 /hdb2]$ uptime
> 11:08pm up 20 days, 3:06, 15 users, load average: 15.05, 15.09, 15.09
Whoa! baby.... what's your process listlike?
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