From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 20:10:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B8A337B719 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:10:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-665.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.193]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA15800; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:10:32 -0600 (CST) From: Josh Paetzel To: "Dan O'Connor" , "Dan O'Connor" , , Subject: Re: Load Averages etc. Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 22:10:06 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" References: <007601c0b8e1$c42cda00$029b140a@danco> In-Reply-To: <007601c0b8e1$c42cda00$029b140a@danco> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01033122110000.00273@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Dan O'Connor wrote: > >What do the actual figures for Load Average mean? I know they are > >CPU usage at 1 min 5? and 15 mins but what does a load average og > >.6 or 1.0 or 1.5 mean? are they percentages? If so how can a load > >average go over 1.0 ? ... > > > The Load Average is the number of processes in the system run queue averaged > over various periods of time (1 sec, 5 sec, 15 sec). > > Basically, it's the number of programs waiting to run. Anything over 3 > indicates your computer is overloaded... > > --Dan > Funny, I know of several very busy web-servers running FreeBSD that have load averages well over 100 and aren't overloaded. Josh > -- > Dan O'Connor > On Matters of Most Grave Concern > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com > FreeBSD Cheat Sheets > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message