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mukesh_a
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‎08-16-2007 08:53 AM

‎08-16-2007 08:53 AM

Load average

Can some body expalin what does show the load average when we running the uptime, and how do it's calculated and what is the normal load average
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James R. Ferguson
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‎08-16-2007 09:04 AM

‎08-16-2007 09:04 AM

Re: Load average

Hi:

The "load average" is the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes.

There is no "normal" other than acceptable end-user performance. Compute-bound tasks will increase the numbers seen whereas I/O intensive jobs will tend to lower the values.

Regards!

...JRF...
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AwadheshPandey
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‎08-16-2007 03:55 PM

‎08-16-2007 03:55 PM

Re: Load average

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Anshumali
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‎08-16-2007 04:58 PM

‎08-16-2007 04:58 PM

Re: Load average

if i remember right, this should be below 2. If its not, you may have CPU bottleneck.
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