gee, what a surprise. Five processes all using the CPU, and what's the load average say? heh. Like I said, try it yourself if you don't believe me. Since obviously you don't, and you obviously don't think five processes all competing for the CPU is going to give you a load average of 5.xx, since you said as much.
top - 22:32:20 up 1 day, 9:13, 1 user, load average: 5.00, 5.03, 4.20 Tasks: 130 total, 7 running, 123 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.3% us, 1.0% sy, 97.7% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 255692k total, 251644k used, 4048k free, 22280k buffers Swap: 522072k total, 24640k used, 497432k free, 59384k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4547 root 39 19 25772 3244 904 R 19.8 1.3 4:56.91 FahCore_82.exe 4612 root 39 19 25772 3244 904 R 19.8 1.3 4:56.21 FahCore_82.exe 4430 root 39 19 25768 3240 904 R 19.5 1.3 5:22.33 FahCore_82.exe 4507 root 39 19 25728 3128 892 R 19.5 1.2 4:59.86 FahCore_82.exe 4634 root 39 19 25728 3124 892 R 19.5 1.2 4:54.65 FahCore_82.exe 4636 root 16 0 2020 1012 784 R 1.3 0.4 0:17.24 top 2084 root 18 0 274m 36m 6420 S 0.3 14.5 69:49.81 java 2301 root 15 0 19896 4900 2064 S 0.3 1.9 6:37.68 X On 6/25/05, Ian mu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just ignore Clayton for the time. > > To reiterate...he has tweaked the Hz on the server... > > "Load average only tells you how many active jobs there are." > > Incorrect (unless you want to refine it as active plus queue..queue > being the operative word). > > "It does not tell you if your CPU is being underworked/overworked." > > I'll go along with that, but it can give an indication of your > "system" being overworked which is just as/more important. > > "It has nothing to do with how much idle time the CPU has left over." > > Correct (to a point). > > You still seem to be saying if you have 5 processes running there will > be a load of 5. I really don't think you mean this in truth just bad > explanation, but everything you are saying seems to point to this. > Maybe paste in here the manpage part you are seeing as its clearly > different to other peoples. > > Bottom line for me is ignore all the garbage (including my posts), try > both and ignore stats as they can be misleading, go for what you see > and feel on the game itself (and server fps if necessary) and not on > the physical machine cpu usage. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > -- Clayton Macleod _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
