Re: [cobalt-developers] CPU Load average - acceptable

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Quoting Andrew Cudzilo <linuxps@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > it goes all the way up to .99 (99 percent) but most
servers I've seen
> > operate in the .10 to .25 range..but thats not including
the peak times of
> usage
> >
> > > 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?

Paul Gillingwater wrote
> Actually, this is not a percentage.  Instead, it's an
average over a period of
> time of how many processes are sitting in the run queue.
Normally, Linux (and
> other UNIXen) operate a queue for processes that are
actively running and a
> queue for processes that are sleeping (usually waiting on
a resource like disk,
> LAN or serial I/O.)  Generally, most processes are
sleeping.  The eighth column
> of a "ps waux" command under Linux shows the run state for
all processes, which
> is usually S (for Sleep), followed by N for low priority
processes or W if
> there are no pages from the process in memory.  The few
processes that are
> actually busy will show "R" for Run.
>
<SNIP>
Correct! and someone from Cobalt responded to this on the
developers list.
He said that you only get into trouble if the value climbs
as high as 40.
Gerald