hii, This sounds something differenet from what Raju was telling. So i made a google search and got two links with contradictory information, 1 supports raju and the other kingsly..
http://lithos.gat.com/docview/load_average.html http://www.useforesite.com/uptime.shtml Also if kingsly is right what does it mean by a load average of 405 (as Sridhar mentioned) !!!!!! So how to come to a conclusion...???? regds bijoy 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
