On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:50:39PM -0700, Bob Lee wrote: > Quoting Robert Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Here's my top procs: > > > > last pid: 2079; load averages: 8.31, 8.91, 8.43 up 0 > > +00:35:15 20:57:53 > > 149 processes: 13 running, 136 sleeping > > Robert, > FWIW, I did some research a short time ago on utilization and other > aspects of watching performance and I found that 'load' provided > better insight FOR ME into what the system is doing. I wasn't able to > find much on load, but if I understand it correctly, part of what it > shows is the queue on the processor(s). 8 seems high, even by today's > standards and real high by the standards of yesteryear when the load > function was originally created. You may want to spend some time > researching load and see what you come up with.
Load just measures how many processes want to run, not how fast or slow they're running. There is no substitute for actually measuring how much work your system can get done on your particular workload. Kris
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