Re: CPU Load numbers (1.86 1.78 1.44) - what do they mean?

In alt.os.linux Nicholas DePetrillo <nick_usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>:
On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:15:37 +0100, Michael Heiming wrote:

To sum it up:
Those three numbers represent how much work has been done on the system in
the last 1 minute, 5 minutes and 15 minutes.

Not quite, loadaverage means the average number of processes
waiting in the run queue for CPU time. Alone it doesn't tell much,
you need to know how many CPU the system has and check how the
load is bound to tell anything meaning full.

Actually, those numbers do represent how much work has been done on the
system in the last 1 minute, 5 minutes and 15 minutes.

I was just using the information I found here:
http://www.luv.asn.au/overheads/NJG_LUV_2002/luvSlides.html

[..]

Red Hat Linux 9 Manual:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/admin-primer/s1-bandwidth-rhlspec.html

States:
The load average is a number that corresponds to the average number of
runnable processes on the system. The load average is often listed as
three sets of numbers (as seen here), which represent the load average for
the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes, indicating that the system in this example
was not very busy.

Exactly and since you can only run one process on a single CPU
the others are waiting in the run queue for a slice of the CPU as
I had already stated, thx for acknowledging.

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