Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 03:27:10 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Alejandro_Ram=EDrez?= <ales@megared.net.mx>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uptime basics!!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990709032056.14320s-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907081840500.1046-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com>
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On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Alejandro Ram=EDrez wrote: >=20 > > Hi, > >=20 > > I like to see the CPU usage at a given time, and when i write uptim= e > > command it gives me diferent values for 1,5 and 15 minutes average, but= my > > simple question is wich its the highest value that a CPU can have, beca= use I > > have notice that in sometimes it gives me 0.50, and in another times it > > givesme 2.35, and also I have seen numbers like 5.48 and I dont know ho= w to > > interpret that in a % way. >=20 > =09The "highest" value is dependent on mostly hardware constraints, > and a few software things. I have some solaris servers that run with a > load average of 75. :)=20 "Alfred, the system is acting really sluggish responding to http." "well the load is at 124." "maybe we need to re-write those new scripts we just put up..." "a-yup" oh, and just ask Jordan about ftp.cdrom.com :) my point? don't think solaris is _all_ that special, I can drive my dual processor workstation up to about 70 before it starts acting crunchy, and that's just because it's swapping really hard and running X. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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