Yeah, I got it. Thanks for the info. Now I understand.
Kingsly John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had recently mailed thus:
>>On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, V.Suresh wrote:
>>
>> |Alright, but what is the difference between CPU percentage of usage and the
>> |load. The percentage remains at 100% even if the load is 1 or more than 3.
>> |So, may I know what's the difference, and can somebody tell me what actually
>> |the load means?
>>
>>CPU usage can *NEVER* exceed 100% ... but load average can go to any
>>level... so if you have 2 programs that normally hog the CPU and usage is
>>100% when run singularly... then if run them both together(simultaneously)
>>they would need 200% cpu usage... but the OS shares the CPU cycles between
>>the processes and so both of them run.. but they will be running at half
>>speed.. so the load average would be 2.0 ... but the processor usage would
>>remain 100%.
>>
>>in other words if load average goes over 1.0 all your tasks will run
>>slower as they will get lesser cpu cycles assigned to them.
>>
>>Kingsly
>>
>>
>> .:: Kingsly John ICQ 14787510 ::.
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>> .:: Linux 2.4.3 #2 Sun Apr 1 00:02:27 IST 2001 i686 ::.
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>> `:. Posted to the list on Tue Apr 3 11:59:22 IST 2001 .:'
>>
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