Greg Cope wrote:
On 5/29/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charlie Brej wrote:
Greg Cope wrote:
Cpu(s): 0.2% us, 0.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.3% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi,
0.3% si
This says there isn't any load. 99.3% idle.
Yeah. I was having problems with the idle process eating up all my CPU
time, too, until I installed BOINC/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Now the idle process
barely gets any time... ;)
CPU might be idle but load as returned by top or uptime is:
load average: 0.25, 0.23, 0.18
UNIX Load Average Part 1: How It Works
http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/ldavg1.shtml
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Tim O'Reilly and Crew
The book UNIX Power Tools [POL97], tell us on p.726 The CPU:
The load average tries to measure the number of active processes at any
time. As a measure of CPU utilization, the load average is simplistic,
poorly defined, but far from useless.
That's encouraging! Anyway, it does help to explain what is being
measured: the number of active processes. On p.720 39.07 Checking System
Load: uptime it continues ...
... High load averages usually mean that the system is being used
heavily and the response time is correspondingly slow.
What's high? ... Ideally, you'd like a load average under, say, 3, ...
Ultimately, 'high' means high enough so that you don't need uptime to
tell you that the system is overloaded.
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The article is well worth the read. Those load averages, though, are
nice and low. Nothing to worry about.
Mike
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