Re: [Q] (possible offtopic) - /proc/loadavg
Ard van Breemen (ard@cstmel.hobby.nl)
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:55:49 +0100 (MET)
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998 linker@nightshade.ml.org wrote:
>
> It's the average number of processes in the run queue (as you said).
>
> This means it's the number of processes that are fighting for the cpu..
> Thus it's tells you how many processes arn't getting cpu time.. So if you
> are not SMP a load avg of 1 says your cpu is completely in use and as it
> increases it's telling you that your system is becoming bogged down..
Well, with a load of 20 vi still seems to be very responsive.
Maybe it counts Zombies to... And zombies do not need any cpu time, they
just need a willing parent.
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dec1: 4:54pm up 7 days, 21:30, 6 users, load average: 0.23, 0.13, 0.10
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