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Stefano_65
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monitorning load averages

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.
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Bill Thorsteinson
Honored Contributor

Re: monitorning load averages

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

These should be availble via most performance
agents.

Stefano_65
Regular Advisor

Re: monitorning load averages

ok, but what means? is the cpu util?
Ralf Hildebrandt
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Re: monitorning load averages

See man uptime
Postfix/BIND/Security/IDS/Scanner, you name it...
Stefano_65
Regular Advisor

Re: monitorning load averages

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

thanks.

s.
Jess Long
Frequent Advisor

Re: monitorning load averages

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