load average question...

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Serveur-Faucon Surveillance [mailto:SrvFaucon at cslaval.qc.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:26 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a little question relating the load average command.
> For example this string...
>  L.C.Load CRITICAL 2003-10-02 14:08:27 0d 0h 10m 36s 4/4 CRITICAL -
load
> average: 8.07, 6.42, 4.82
> 
> is load average : 8.07, etc...
> 
> What do these number are suppose te represent? For example, in
Windows, it
> is in %. So the cpu utilisation is 56% for example.


Simplistically, load average is an approximate average of the number of
runnable tasks ready to run in the run queue at instant, 5 min and 15
minute intervals.

--
Marc


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