Re: Re: Number of Procs
Darac Marjal wrote:
> It is perfectly normal to have many processes. It's also, however,
> possible to have "too many" processes? How many is too many? This is
> where Linux's concept of "load average" comes into play. Calculating
> "load average" is a complex task, but the numbers SHOULD come out that a
> load average equal to the number of CPUs is a perfectly-loaded system.
> Run "uptime" and you'll see the load average over the last 1, 5 and 15
> minutes. If these numbers are high, you have a busy system.
Thanks for the info.
Today I did not have any problems, but I was used to have at most 100
processes. Then, when the number of processes increased about 200, that
was usually some bug (e.g. in some web browser plug-in), eventually
requiring to kill X11 or, even, reset the computer.
Lately, I have usually more than 300 processes listed in gkrellm (337
right now), and sometimes the system stops to respond (with high disk
activity).
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hudson@musix:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 435 412 22 0 2 74
-/+ buffers/cache: 334 100
Swap: 1057 143 914
hudson@musix:~$ uptime
13:38:58 up 2:09, 1 user, load average: 0,11, 0,20, 0,28
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