Kyle Waters wrote: > Andrew Jorgensen wrote: >> Okay folks, I'm going out on a limb and admitting to some ignorance >> here. Suppose I have a high load average on a server, let's say 20, >> how do I tell what's really going on? I understand that load means >> that there are processes waiting for some resource but how do I see >> what resources they are waiting for? We don't want to go buy more RAM >> and then find out that we had plenty of RAM, for instance. >> >> > Now you've got me wondering. How do I check 'load'.
uptime top Usually you see 3 numbers, as they are moving averages over different amounts of time. Something like 1 minute, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, etc. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
