From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 22 10:39:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zeppo.it.uu.se (zeppo.it.uu.se [130.238.15.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C3137B795 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 10:39:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@csd.uu.se) Received: (from ertr1013@localhost) by zeppo.it.uu.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA29633; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:39:19 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:39:19 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Scott Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Load Avg was: Dual Processors Message-ID: <20000422193919.B29540@student.csd.uu.se> References: <01a401bfac75$16cd7d20$0100a8c0@blade> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from gsi22419@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU on Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 12:20:24PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 12:20:24PM -0400, Scott wrote: > > > > 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 > The load is the number of processes that want to run at a given moment. The load average is just the average of the load over some (short) amount of time. The three load numbers displayed with uptime or top is the load average over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message