When the computer is "idle", load should be 0. This is the source of its usefulness. I.e., non-0 loadavg means that either the comp is thrashing, or backup is running, or R is partitioning a graph, or emacs is being compiled or a file db is being rebuilt or .... "normal" ui operation (editing a file, browsing the web &c) should not affect loadavg. this is precisely the usefulness of loadavg: it tells me that the computer is busy, and, unless I know it is busy because I told it to do something, I should investigate: maybe a virus is trying to break into the NSA :-) right now my loadavg is at 1.3 while only one single-threaded computation is running. This is wrong.
It would be nice if there were a tool which would tell me that the loadavg consists of. e.g.: loadavg=4.2 = 1 from R + 1.5 from Matlab + 1.0 from gcc + 0.7 from a no-longer-available NFS-mounted FS. it is alleged that "atop" is supposed to be able to do that, but even its adepts have not been able to produce such a split reliably. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/985661 Title: High load average To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xubuntu-desktop/+bug/985661/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
