On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Serge Maandag wrote: > > This may be like stating the obvious to some, but remember that > load is not the same as cpu usage. > > The load is the number of processes waiting to be run. > They can be waiting for cpu, but also for disk I/O. > > I've seen loads of 700 and up on busy systems. That is also > about the moment top doesn't work anymore, so you'll have to > use `who` or `vmstat`. >
You're correct, it's not. But the question was perhaps a bit ambiguous: "But how can I calculate the processor load with the numbers from /proc/stat" regards, Dave -- -------------------------------------------------------- Dave Lugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] LC Unit #260 TINLC Have you hugged your firewall today? No spam, thanks. -------------------------------------------------------- Are you the police? . . . . No ma'am, we're sysadmins. -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
