Subject: Re: cpu load
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/01/2002 14:27:16
Manuel Bouyer said:
>On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:19:29AM -0600, Fabi_n Salamanca wrote:
>> 11:13AM up 18:10, 1 user, load averages: 0.54, 0.32, 0.28
>> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
>> fsalamanca p0 128.251.183.38 11:13AM - w
>
>There is no standart way of computing the load average, and each system
>implements its own algorithm. It's only vaguely related to CPU usage:
>you can have higth load average with only a few % of CPU used, for example
>if processes are I/O bound.
And that is not really a high load by any stretch of the imagination on
any system.
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