1/8 The load averages aren't all that high, why is soda responding so
badly?
\_ not that high? 2:50PM up 39 days, 8:54, 120 users,
load averages: 18.39, 23.74, 21.98
\_ Not too high for around here anyway.
\_ What do the load time averages mean?
\_ Mostly nothing because they depend on too many factors like
proc speed, etc. Only comparable to themselves through time.
\_ And even then, different states on the same machine at the
same "load" can have totally different discernable slowdown.
\_ No duh. I think what he meant was, "How are the numbers
calculated? What do they represent? Why are there
three?" Which I don't know either.
\_ ever read a manpage? they are 1, 5, and 15 minute
averages. that much is pretty standard across unix
systems. I am not sure that there is any consitency
in how they are sampled, however. what it represents
is the number of runnable tasks when the sample was
taken, e.g. the number of tasks being considered by
the scheduler. |