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On Friday 15 August 2003 03:47 pm, Ruse, Kevin KPSI wrote:
> The load average is a rather subjective number. A load of 0 or 1 on a
> single cpu computer means the cpu is meeting its current processing
> requirements. Numbers continually higher that 1 means the cpu is not
> meeting the current processing needs.
And it's not even terribly useful for that. If you have a zombie process
hanging out there not using any CPU resources, it can still be reflected in
the load average without actually having any real impact on host performance.
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