TOP Out put

[Nair1980]

Hi all ,

Any one explain me what is the LOAD value refers in a top out put , under CPU state .


Cpu states:
CPU LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS
0 1.29 0.0% 95.0% 0.0% 5.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
1 0.27 1.0% 2.9% 6.9% 89.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2 0.30 0.0% 0.0% 3.9% 96.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
3 0.42 0.0% 72.5% 2.9% 24.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
4 0.40 0.0% 6.9% 1.0% 92.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
5 0.36 1.0% 8.8% 4.9% 85.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Thanks in advance
Nair

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Load = load average per CPU.
Load averages in the last one, five, and fifteen minutes of all the active processors in the system.

[Nair1980]

HI,

Could you please tell me what should be the value of this in ideal condition.

I mean if i am planing to impliment an alaram on my server depends on the load value . what should be the threshold for this monitoring

Thanks in advance
Nair

[Patrick Wallek]

That is something only you can answer. You must monitor your server and figure what is normal for you. Once you have that information you can construct your alarm appropriately.

[Yogeeraj_1]

Hi Nair,

If you want to implement an alarm system then glance will be a better tool to look into.

see man glance.

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi Again,

Also have a look at the following document:
http://www.informit.com/content/images/013026525X/samplechapter/013026525X.pdf

Read carefully the section with heading "Detecting CPU Contention"

hope this helps too!

kind regards,
yogeeraj