The load average numbers are the average number of runnable processes
(waiting to run on the CPU) in that time interval. vmstat is a good,
non-intrusive way (as opposed to top) to view actual CPU usage.
Always ignore the first line of output from vmstat and iostat.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wimprine, Thomas" <twimprine@stei.com>
To: "'Nolug'" <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 11:17 AM
Subject: [Nolug]
> I've looked in the top man page and didn't see anything real quick. What
> scale does the "load average" use? At what point is the system running at
> 100%?
>
> 9:24am up 54 days, 16:36, 2 users, load average: 8.73, 7.35, 6.47
> 213 processes: 210 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU0 states: 67.3% user, 9.2% system, 0.0% nice, 22.3% idle
> CPU1 states: 65.0% user, 9.0% system, 0.0% nice, 25.4% idle
> Mem: 642724K av, 629612K used, 13112K free, 0K shrd, 16392K
> buff
> Swap: 1309656K av, 1135560K used, 174096K free 57464K
> cached
>
> Thomas
>
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