On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 12:17, Roger Schmeits wrote: > > > right now, (peak hours) the load on the box is 1.19 > > What this 1.19, .7, .8 figures???? that everyone is using. Can I assume > that is messages per second?
The load is the average number of processes during a given time (/proc/loadavg lists the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes' averages) which are in the runnable state. If your load is < 1, then your CPU is probably idle some of the time. If it's == 1, then your CPU is probably active all of the time, but processes aren't made to wait around for CPU time. If it's > 1, then there are more processes running than the system has resources for. They'll sort out eventually, but if the load is consistently high, then you'd probably benefit from more/better hardware. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
