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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org>
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Subject: Re: Uptime basics!!!
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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



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