From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 22 9:20:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU (gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.edu [141.165.1.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B12B337B676 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 09:20:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsi22419@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU) Received: from localhost (gsi22419@localhost) by gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id MAA35490 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 12:20:26 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 12:20:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Scott To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Load Avg was: Dual Processors In-Reply-To: <01a401bfac75$16cd7d20$0100a8c0@blade> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hehe, I ran both programs and sure enough they both were using 98% and 99% > CPU time. So I take it that little test was successful, as now the load > average is 2.2. > Is there any correct and accurate reference to what a load average means? Mine runs as high as 1.8 and it's a single cpu machine. Whereas on a server it runs at 2.2 and it's an 8way machine, and I know it's usually running at about 50%. However that machine runs AIX 4.x -scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message