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Re: I don't get where the load comes from

by Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda-2 :: Rate this Message:

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Francois Pussault
<fpussault@...> wrote:

>
> load is not realy a cpu usage %.
> In facts it is sum of many % (cpu real load, memory, buffers, etc...)
> that explain why load can up over 5.0 for each cpu without any crash or freeze
> of the host.
>
> we should consider load as a "host" ressources %... this is not real of course
> but this is more real, than considering it as only cpu use.
>
>

"The load average numbers give the number of jobs in the run queue averaged
over 1, 5, and 15 minutes...."

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