Check_load

[Phil Costelloe]

Sandeep Narasimha Murthy wrote:
> 
> So, does load average: 0.35, 0.47, 0.53, mean there are only 0.53
> jobs running and waiting over the last 15 minutes ? executing TOP in
> the shell shows me at least 15 different processes..  

The important distinction here is "running", i.e. actually on the CPU.
The STAT column in top tells you whether a process is running (R) or
sleeping (S) (amongst others) and you'll find most are sleeping at any
given time.

Phil


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