AA Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 [root@poisonsoup root]# uptime 2:22pm up 8 days, 9:35, 1 user, load average: 1.18, 0.47, 0.31 What does the load average mean and how is it calculated...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 Got this from man uptime: uptime gives a one line display of the following information. The current time, how long the system has been running, how many users are currently logged on, and the system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes. As to how it calulates the average I can only surmise its just that. It takes an averge of the load during the last X minutes and shows that as the output. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AA Posted January 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 Is the load calculated in percentage or some other kind of statistic...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HaloScan Posted January 29, 2003 Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 It's kind of a percentage based on how much processing power your running programs *requested* (not got). The reason I say requested is because sometimes, if you have a lot of CPU-heavy programs running, you get load averages bigger than 1.0 like 2.64 or 11.0 (I've hit that on a Pentium 2 400Mhz before--needless to say I've upgraded now ;) ). ^^ That's my hypothesis on what the load average numbers are. I'm sure there's a much more technically accurate way to say how the load average is calculated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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