On Wednesday 04 July 2001 10:33, Paul wrote: > As ffar as I know it is the average number of jobs in the run queue over > the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes. The numbers displayed are an indication of > how many processes were competing for CPU time at any given time averaged > over "N" minutes. > > Paul So at appoximately what "load average" should I start to get worried about the system being too busy (i.e. becomes so unresponsive that I can't do any work)? Thanks, George
