It was Wed, 4 Jul 2001 23:23:44 +0000 when George Petri wrote: >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)? Wouldn't know exactly, depends a lot on what your system does in general. But if it starts running on more than 50 for a single user machine, I'd start worrying and looking! But it also depends on the load that a certain job puts on the machine. 100 jobs that echo output are by far not as heavy as 10 compiles in one run. Paul -- Progress: replacing a theory that is wrong with one more subtly wrong. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.0pre3 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
