[hobbit] Load Averages
Gavin Leonard
gleonard at progrexion.com
Wed Oct 8 23:38:37 CEST 2008
It is based on physical processors or cores?
-Gavin
From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 3:28 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Load Averages
It is not a percentage.
http://www.luv.asn.au/overheads/NJG_LUV_2002/luvSlides.html
Simply put the load is how much calculator power your box is doing. I have seen servers that have a value of several hundred load on a day to day basis.
The biggest reason for it being monitored is to watch what is usual and when you see a spike, ascend, descend, etc, you have a history to compare it to. This value will be different for nearly every single server.
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Gavin Leonard <gleonard at progrexion.com<mailto:gleonard at progrexion.com>> wrote:
I am getting pages from my hobbit server when some of my linux systems are hitting 15 on their load avg. does that equate to something worse than it sounds? Cause 15% load average on a linux system does not seem that bad? Or is it not a percentage?
Gavin Leonard
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