Re: Monitoring load average - healthy figure?

2004-03-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jamie wrote: I've googled the results, and I've seen a couple posts from people who claim that the general rule of thumb is that your load average should be less than the number of CPU's. I don't know what OS they were referring to, however. Does this sound right for FreeBSD? Are there better

Monitoring load average - healthy figure?

2004-03-25 Thread Jamie
I've just installed some new software on my machine running FreeBSD 4.9. It's a dual proc. Pentium III. I used "top" to check my load averages, and I've noticed that they climbed from around 0.30 to 1.59. I've googled the results, and I've seen a couple posts from people who claim th