On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:02:21PM -0800, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:27:16PM -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:
> > 
> > And that is not really a high load by any stretch of the imagination on
> > any system. 
> 
> As a measure of "utilization" it is high for an idle system.  Thinking about
> "work load" it is not high at all.
> 
> An essentially idle system should not be sitting at 0.54 load.  That means
> that half the time a process is running.  While that doesn't directly
> translate to 50% cpu utilization, it seems high.

Well, it depends on the period of time on which the measure has been done.
Processes waiting on I/O are also accounted in the load average in one
way or another I guess ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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