[arm-allstar] Load Average

[David McGough]

Hi,

Load average doesn't necessarily indicate CPU usage, but rather how many
processes are waiting to run.


Have a look at this webpage, which has more info:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/116849/why-load-is-high-despite-the-fact-that-neither-cpu-or-disk-is-overused


73, David KB4FXC




On Sun, 19 Aug 2018, "James Hause via arm-allstar" wrote:

> On the Supermon, there is a line as follows:
> 
> [ Sunday, August 19, 2018 CDT 05:15:21 up 34 min, 0 users, load average:
> 1.06, 1.10, 1.02 ]
> 
> Just want to better understand better what the load average numbers mean.
> 
> Thanks,
> KF5LBT
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