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Re: [PLUG] high load average
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On 05 Mar 2001 21:58:37 -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
> also sprach Michael Leone (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 09:53:09PM -0500):
> > 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").
>
> mh. well, i am not entirely sure of this, but i thought that a load of
> 2.00 indicates that to the best of linux's knowledge, two of the
> processors of which one is currently running would be 100% busy.
No; I've seen (on the postfix mailing list) where someone once mentioned
that their Linux mail server once temporarily hit *6* on a load average
(while cleared a heavily backed up mail queue). So I doubt that means
600%, or that this guy had 6 processors.
>
> otherwise you will have to persuade me that 2.00 is 2% and that my
> systems on average use only 0.30% of the cpu. :)
I think there's something more involved to deciphering that number.
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