From: Jim Seymour (no email)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 09:02:02 EDT
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> | | Just kidding... didn't reeeealy wan't to make it look like a real load
> | | avg...
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> | | Your load avg would suggest that you would need 745 more processors to
> | | have the load avg back to 1 Doesn't that scare you??
> |
> | load average is not calculated alone on how busy a processor is, so no ;)
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> (before anyone replies, that was a joke :P)
But unintentionally correct. Load average reflects the number of
processes (waiting) in the run queue. These can pile up for a
number of reasons, including I/O waits (slow/over-burdened disk,
for example).
vmstat is your friend ;).
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