load average question...

[Sam Stickland]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Powell" <mpowell at ena.com>
To: "Serveur-Faucon Surveillance" <SrvFaucon at cslaval.qc.ca>;
<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 7:50 PM
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] load average question...


>
>
> > -----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.

I thought it was better defined as, the number of tasks that where ready to
run, but failed to, during the run period. ie. the number of tasks it is
falling behind by. So on a uniprocessor machine you don't want it over 1, on
a dual over 2 is bad. etc.

Sam



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