Marc Mutz wrote:
> Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> >
> > What does these figures represent??
> >
> > [niclas@controller niclas]$ uptime
> > 7:34pm up 46 days, 23:37, 1 user, load average: 1.12, 1.19, 1.12
> >
>
> The computation goes as follows, IIRC:
>
> load = 0;
> for (i=0; i<= number_of_timeslices_per_second; i++)
> sum += processes_ready_to_run_for timeslice(i);
> load = sum / number_of_timeslices_per_second;
>
> This is the load for one second. The values displayed are averages over
> 1, 5, 15 minutes.
So what does that tell you?? Nothing?
I could have 100 processes ready to run, and fully complete in their
timeslices, and get a very high load average, without loading the CPU
much... Right?
Niclas
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Marc
>
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> University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
>
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