monitorning load averages

[Stefano_65]

Hi everybody,
I need to monitor the load averages shown in top command, ah shown:

Load averages: 0.13, 0.29, 0.30

What means exactly this value? and can I monitor it via performance agent?

thanx a lot

s.

[Bill Thorsteinson]

Load averages are for the last 1, 5, and 15
minutes. See man uptime.

These should be availble via most performance
agents.

[Stefano_65]

ok, but what means? is the cpu util?

[Ralf Hildebrandt · Accepted solution]

See man uptime

[Stefano_65]

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

thanks.

s.

[Jess Long]

Look at the manpage for the command 'sar'. 'sar' is the System Activity Reporter utility that is standard with most Linux systems. One of the options, '-q' presents the process queues and load averages since midnite. It can also be used to report historical data, see /var/log/sa for the daily files.

JL