DBAN 'load averages' question

dajhorn

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The unix "load average" is a measurement of system activity.

An idle computer has a load average of 0. A process that can use all CPU time adds 1 point to the load average. A process that is waiting for I/O to happen also adds 1 point to the load average.

You can think of a load average between 0..1 as a percentage of system utilization. For example, a load average of 0.25 means that the system is 25% busy. Load averages greater than 1 indicate resource overcommitment. For example, a load average of 2 means that the computer would need to be twice as fast to handle the entire process schedule.
 

dajhorn

Member
The numbers that you see in DBAN are for three rolling intervals: one minute, ten five minutes, and fifteen minutes. These are the same numbers that you would get from the `top` or `uptime` programs.
 
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