[CLUE-Tech] top and system load

[Ed Hill]

On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 22:28, Dan Harris wrote:
> >From my understanding, a load of 2 is pretty darned busy.  Load of 3 means 
> upgrade immediately.


Upgrade?  Almost certainly not.

See whats causing the load and try to alleviate and/or understand it? 
Sure.

I just fired up nine xterms and ran "yes" in every one.  So I now have a
load average (as reported by top) of:

  load average: 9.37, 8.08, 4.39

Does that mean I should upgrade?  Hell no.  The system is still *plenty*
responsive enough to write you this email.  All it means is 9+ programs
are simultaneously hammering away at all available CPU cycles.

And thats *all* it means...

Ed


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