Yes, the number can be over 100%. That's what tells you the system is overloaded.
To qoute Dr. Neil Gunther, "On average, the UNIX load average metrics are certainly not your average average." The problem is that load average isn't a measure of "how much the CPU is being used" (I mean, it's not like you can have a CPU at 50%. What would that even mean? that only half of the CPU is running? The CPU is either on or off, running at full speed) A poor, horribly incomplete quick definition, CPU Utli measures is the ratio of active processes to live CPUs. An 800% means that there where, on average, eight active processes waiting for CPU time. there's a lot more to it than that, but it's a good way to look at it. read the wikipeida article on load averages and Gunter's (http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/display/5/index.htm) stuff. ------------------------ Luis V. Garcia -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=6485#6485 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
