On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 04:10:14PM +0100, Ruben van der Leij wrote:
> > Does anyone have any idea what could be the problem? The
> > disk IO is very low and my computer is *really* sleeping,
> > with a load average (uptime etc) of approx. 1.4..
>
> A loadaverage of 1.4 means you have on average 1.4 task waiting to run. Or,
> to put it in percentages: your machine has 140% of it's time filled with
> tasks that want to run.
Not quite. It means that, on average, 1.4 tasks were ready to run. On
a 4 processor machine, that means that there were still two completely
idle CPUs. A load average of 4 would mean all 4 CPUs are 100% busy.
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Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/
