I don't think it means 100% at all. No idea where you get that from. Its just your explanation doesn't make sense. How can it be how many processes have used the cpu in the last minute? Are you saying when load is 0.5 half a process has used the cpu in the last 5 mins? Basically you're not making sense is the problem.
Load is the amount of processes on average "waiting". Thats VERY different. I.e if your load is 1, it means on average there is always 1 process waiting to grab some cpu time. If load is 2, there are 2 processes waiting on average to keep it pretty simplified. Load doesn't directly relate to cpu "usage", no one has said that iirc. I would say people need to watch both. A load > 2 on a single cpu will start to give bad performance on games even if cpu usage is 30% (you can get this on certain maps/games for example). Load for me is "generally" a better indicator than cpu usage as it gives a better viewpoint of responsiveness of servers (imo). But I wouldn't let a game machine go over load 2 or load 70% as a rule of thumb for me. Not sure what man page you're looking at btw. On 6/25/05, Clayton Macleod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's spelled out rather clearly in the man pages. It's how many > processes used the CPU during the last 1 minute, 5 minutes, and 15 > minutes. My wicked old 500MHz P3 is sitting in the closet running a > handful of stuff for the rest of the computers in the house. It > routinely has a load average of between 1.5 and 2.5, with a handful of > java apps that use about 65-70% CPU. That machine pretty much always > has about 25% idle CPU, it's never really maxed out. Yet the load > average sits between 1.5 and 2.5. There's still CPU left over for > other things. The load average definitely does not tell you anything > directly about active/idle CPU cycles. It only deals with *how many > processes* are running and actively using CPU. Man pages clearly state > this. Experience clearly shows this. > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
