Re: How do I read the load information

["shrek-m gmx de" <shrek-m gmx de>]

Steve Ellis schrieb:

> Hi all
>
> This has been confusing me for some years now and every explanation I
> have had confuses me more. Here is hoping not to get confused
> anymore..;-)
>
> load average: 0.13, 0.03, 0.01
>
> Is the above good, bad, and why?
>
> I have seen it where the first figure is at 0.74, should I worry?

not bad?

$man uptime
last 1, 5, 15 minutes



i was starting  several apps:
netscape, openoffice, gimp, ...

you can check your system
with  top, gnome-system-monitor, ...

[admin xp1800 admin]$ uptime
 1:35pm  up  2:07,  2 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.07
[admin xp1800 admin]$ man uptime
[admin xp1800 admin]$ uptime
 1:37pm  up  2:10,  2 users,  load average: 0.12, 0.08, 0.07
[admin xp1800 admin]$ uptime
 1:38pm  up  2:11,  2 users,  load average: 0.97, 0.33, 0.16
[admin xp1800 admin]$ uptime
 1:39pm  up  2:11,  2 users,  load average: 0.71, 0.32, 0.16
[admin xp1800 admin]$ uptime
 1:40pm  up  2:12,  2 users,  load average: 0.23, 0.26, 0.15
[admin xp1800 admin]$ uptime
 1:43pm  up  2:16,  2 users,  load average: 0.31, 0.22, 0.14
[admin xp1800 admin]$ uptime
 1:47pm  up  2:19,  2 users,  load average: 0.18, 0.25, 0.17
[admin xp1800 admin]$ uptime
 1:50pm  up  2:22,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.12, 0.13

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