On Mittwoch 18 Februar 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Shawn Haggett <po...@podgeweb.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 16:24:45 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Beau Henderson <b...@thehenderson.com> > > > > wrote: > >> > G'day, > >> > > >> > I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is causing > >> > my new Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load of 1.00 when not in > >> > use. Right after boot up it settles at 1.00 when I do nothing. I'm not > >> > seeing anything out of ordinary in dmesg ( asside from an non issue > >> > with legacy usb and sd and sr drivers in the kernel ). > >> > > >> > I had Ubuntu on this thing for a week or so as I needed something > >> > quick fast when my workstation chipfan died on me and this wasn't an > >> > issue when I had that installed so I think I can rule out hardware. > >> > Also, its not an issue when I boot up via live cd ( sysrescuecd ). > >> > > >> > I've tried different cpufreq governors ( default is ondemand ) and > >> > that doesn't appear to be an issue. > >> > > >> > Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. > >> > > >> > Thanks. > >> > >> I've never known what those numbers represent (I know it is "load > >> average", but what it means, and what is the range, I have no idea)... > >> Anyway, it seems mine are always around 1+. It's not perfectly idle > >> but not running seti or anything intensive either. > > > > I remember trying to google the meaning of those numbers once. It was > > VERY hard to find out what they were. It's something like, average number > > of processes in the running or ready to run states for the last 1, 5 & 15 > > minutes. > > I just ignore them because they are meaningless to me. The active CPU > percentages seem to be based in Earthly reality. :) > > Maybe someone with more knowledge can explain what a "1" means versus > a "2" or whatever.
AFAIR: it is the number of process/task ready to run at the same time. 1 means there is one task that 'wants' to run/is running, 2 are two and so forth.
