This sounds very reasonable and meaningful, but I'm afraid that it's
absolutely not correct. Please see my message to the list for the
meaning of the load averages.
Better luck next time :-)
-- Raju
>>>>> "Someone" writes:
Someone> On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Bijoy Paul wrote: |hai, | |that
Someone> answer is not clear. The command gives values |like .35,
Someone> 1.13, .75 etc... Can u elaborate on this..
Someone> Load is the ratio of amount of actual CPU cycles required
Someone> to process all running tasks to the number of CPU cycles
Someone> avaiable.
Someone> so 0.35 means 35% of CPU cycles used... and 65% wasted.
Someone> 1.00 means all available CPU cycles are used.
Someone> anything over 1 means... system will be running slower...
Someone> 2.00 will mean the machine needs twice the available
Someone> number of CPU cycles to process all running jobs... so
Someone> your jobs will be running at 50% or less speed than
Someone> normal (ie., a machine with a load of <1)
Someone> on an idle machine the load is 0 (ie., all CPU cycles are
Someone> wasted)
Someone> It's a good thing to keep system avg. load under 0.85 so
Someone> you'll have 15% extra load handling capacity.
Someone> Hope that clarifies your doubts.
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