Re: system load

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:43:43PM +0900, Viktor Pavlenko wrote:
> > >From xload manpage: xload - system load average display for X
> > What is system load?
>  
> Load average is the average number of processes running in the previous (uhm,
> let me try to remember) minute, five minutes and ten minutes. I think.
> The higher it gets, the more work your processes are demanding, and the more
> likely things are going to start swapping and thrashing.

erm, no.  I had my system load spiked to over 900 the other day, and there
were nowhere near that many processes running (maybe 100, if that).
ypbind got all horked up and started eating resources..

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company