From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 21:58:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB34E37B719 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:58:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 12206 invoked by uid 0); 30 Mar 2001 05:58:10 -0000 Received: from pd4b9ee80.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO lofizwei) (212.185.238.128) by mail.gmx.net (mp008-rz3) with SMTP; 30 Mar 2001 05:58:10 -0000 Message-ID: <01d401c0b8de$85a04ea0$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org> From: "Michael Nottebrock" To: , References: <276623274e2c.274e2c276623@mbox.com.au> Subject: Re: Load Averages etc. Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 07:59:02 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Subject: Load Averages etc. > What do the actual figures for Load Average mean? I know they are CPU > usage at 1 min 5? and 15 mins but what does a load average og .6 or 1.0 > or 1.5 mean? are they percentages? If so how can a load average go over > 1.0 ? ... Try to imagine it this way: For every finished task, new tasks are created. Example: For each task that finishes, 0.6 new tasks are created. Your machine is partially idle. For each task that finishes, 6.0 new tasks are created. Your machine is overloaded. As long as the load is not reduced, the load average will continue to rise exponentially. Greetings, Michael Nottebrock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message