Re: (ot) What is load average?
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:57:16PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
> It is the average number of processes in the 'R' (running/runnable) state
> (or blocked on I/O). Very simple really. Unfortunately interpreting
> these numbers is something of a black art. If your load average is
> regularly over 1, you are losing performance and would benefit from more
> power. If your load average is under 1, you still have performance to
> spare.
Unless the processes that are driving up the load are niced to hell and
gone. Like dnetc, for example. Also that is assuming 1 CPU, not 2 or 4. ;)
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