On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Bijoy Paul wrote: |hai, | |that answer is not clear. The command gives values |like .35, 1.13, .75 etc... Can u elaborate on this..
Load is the ratio of amount of actual CPU cycles required to process all running tasks to the number of CPU cycles avaiable. so 0.35 means 35% of CPU cycles used... and 65% wasted. 1.00 means all available CPU cycles are used. anything over 1 means... system will be running slower... 2.00 will mean the machine needs twice the available number of CPU cycles to process all running jobs... so your jobs will be running at 50% or less speed than normal (ie., a machine with a load of <1) on an idle machine the load is 0 (ie., all CPU cycles are wasted) It's a good thing to keep system avg. load under 0.85 so you'll have 15% extra load handling capacity. Hope that clarifies your doubts. Kingsly _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
