Michael Leone on Mon, 5 Mar 2001 21:49:20 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] high load average


On 05 Mar 2001 21:15:50 -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
> someone explain this to me:
> 
> albatross:~$ uname -a
> Linux albatross 2.2.17 #2 Mon Sep 04 20:49:27 CET 2000 i586 unknown
> 
> albatross:~$ uptime
>   2:56am  up 174 days,  5:50,  1 user,  load average: 2.00, 2.05, 2.01



> is it 200% loaded???

How can that 2.00 possibly mean 200%? The load can only be measured up to 100%;
over 100% would indicate that the load is higher than the CPU can handle (100% being 
defined as "maximum amount of processing that the CPU is capable of"). 

Or am I totally misunderstanding ?

I don't think it means 200%, but do agree that it seems high.


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