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Re: [cobalt-developers] CPU Load average - acceptable
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] CPU Load average - acceptable
- From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Apr 18 10:19:22 2001
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- List-id: Discussion Forum for developers on Cobalt Networks products <cobalt-developers.list.cobalt.com>
Dico Reyers wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am wondering what an acceptable load average is on my CPU. I have a
> Raq4r and occasionally go and check this information.. usually this number
> is very low (less then .10). What does this number max out at?
loadavg is an average of the number of tasks waiting to be run over a given
interval. Notice it comes in three colums. These are the 1 minute, 5
minute, and 15 minute loadavg. There is no limit, but once you cross about
40, it gets to be pretty hard to use..
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Tim Hockin
Systems Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
thockin@xxxxxxx