>> I think it's the average over that time of the number of runnable tasks.
>>
>> On one CPU, load average of 1.0 means 100% CPU usage, but this apparently
>> isn't a bad thing. It can be more efficient to be running two jobs at once
>> than sequentially.
>
>wow. if that's the case, then my box is overloaded:
>
>[mle@localhost 23:08:11 /hdb2]$ uptime
> 11:08pm up 20 days, 3:06, 15 users, load average: 15.05, 15.09, 15.09
A high load average is not necessarily a bad thing. The load average
is the number of runnable tasks. If there are lots of runnable tasks
then the CPU is timeshared. So each task will take longer to complete,
but if the CPU is fast enough, the users will be satisfied.
But in your case, it looks like it's been pegged at 15.09 for a long time,
so something is wrong.
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