Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:22:21 -0600 (CST) From: Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Monitoring load average - healthy figure? Message-ID: <20040325211934.F21612@floyd.gnulife.org>
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I've just installed some new software on my machine running FreeBSD
4.9. It's a dual proc. Pentium III. I used "top" to check my load
averages, and I've noticed that they climbed from around 0.30 to 1.59.
I've googled the results, and I've seen a couple posts from people
who claim that the general rule of thumb is that your load average should
be less than the number of CPU's. I don't know what OS they were referring
to, however. Does this sound right for FreeBSD? Are there better ways of
monitoring load average?
- Jamie
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