Hi,
I was struggling to find the information so I thought it would be easier to ask here.
What does the load average as reported by top mean ? To me those are 3 mysterious values, which most likely refer to some average CPU usage and this is all I know about it (not sure if it’s true).
What is the maximum value for this parameter (I guess the minimum is 0.00) and what does it mean ?
Best regards,
Greg
On 07/12/2011 12:36 PM, glistwan wrote:
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> What does the load average as reported by top mean ?
is that not in either ‘info top’ or ‘man top’ ?
or maybe in one of these:
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+top+load+average
i think it is, but i’m in a bit of a hurry just now, i’ll look later for
you…
or you might look for yourself…and find it faster than i might…
I was looking in the man but could not find it. This link describes it nicely to my mind so thanks alot 
Examining Load Average | Linux Journal
Best regards,
Greg
DenverD wrote:
> On 07/12/2011 12:36 PM, glistwan wrote:
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>> What does the load average as reported by top mean ?
>
> is that not in either ‘info top’ or ‘man top’ ?
>
> or maybe in one of these:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+top+load+average
This hit seems pretty good:
On 07/12/2011 01:36 PM, glistwan wrote:
> I was looking in the man but could not find it.
right…sometimes you get more out of ‘info’ than ‘man’, sometimes a LOT
more…
and, of course i guess google knows everything (that article had more
than i wanted to learn)
dd
Yep. I was trying google before as well but I guess wasn’t searching for the right phrases so thanks again.
Best regards,
Greg