On 5/3/06, Will H. Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm looking for some hints on evaluating load average. I have a new system that is showing load averages over .50 most of the time, but I don't see that it is doing much according to systat vmstat. I figured that this machine would be way overpowered for the job it is doing. Is load average (like what is displayed in uptime) really a good indicator?
i never look at load; it's meaningless. watching vmstat, iostat and netstat all with -w 1 is probably much more informative.
