Mr. Black Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 What is the maximum load average (i.e. 10.00) for a single processor system? Trying to get a load script to work but I don't know what each load average indicates in terms of percentage of CPU usage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yzero Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 a load average of 5.00 means there is an average of 5 processes in the queue to be processed by your cpu at a given time.. so your average could be 50 if you ran enough stuff :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 yes, load average is not same thing as cpu usage 0-100% you can have a avg of 2.0 and your system is lagged to hell, or 30.0 and system respond very quickly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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