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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers top - Load average Post 302239343 by govindts on Tuesday 23rd of September 2008 11:22:37 AM
Old 09-23-2008
top - Load average

Hello, Here is the output of top command. My understanding here is,
the load average 0.03 in last 1 min, 0.02 is in last 5 min, 0.00 is in last 15 min.

By seeing this load average, When can we say that, the system load averge is too high?
When can we say that, load average is medium/low??

15:18:58 up 404 days, 17:54, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00
225 processes: 224 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 1.2% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 97.9%
cpu00 0.5% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7% 98.4%
cpu01 0.0% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 99.0%
cpu02 4.1% 0.0% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 94.2%
cpu03 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 99.8%
Mem: 5907464k av, 5875112k used, 32352k free, 0k shrd, 156876k buff

I would appreicate if any one can answer for this. Thanks
 

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RRDCOLLECT.CONF(5)						    RRDcollect							RRDCOLLECT.CONF(5)

NAME
rrdcollect.conf -- RRDcollect configuration file. SYNOPSIS
/etc/rrdcollect.conf DESCRIPTION
The rrdcollect.conf file contains information where to look for data and to which database file put it. Variables # Configuration values: step = 60 directory = /var/local/rrd loglevel = LOG_NOTICE Patterns # System statistics: file:///proc/stat "cpu %d %d %d %d" stat.rrd:user,nice,system,idle "processes %u" stat.rrd:processes "swap %u %u" stat.rrd:swap_in,swap_out # System load: 1, 5 and 15 min. average file:///proc/loadavg "%f %f %f" avg1.rrd:load,avg5.rrd:load,avg15.rrd:load # Memory usage: file:///proc/meminfo "Mem: %*d %d %d %d %d %d" memory.rrd:used,free,shared,buffers,cached "Swap: %*d %d %*d" memory.rrd:swap_used # S.M.A.R.T. HDD temperature: file:///proc/ide/hda/smart_values 7:"%*04x %*04x %02x%*02x" temperature.rrd:hda Regular expressions # Using regular expressions: file:///proc/stat /cpu (d+) (d+) (d+) (d+)/ stat.rrd:user,nice,system,idle Please look into examples/ directory for working examples. FILES
/etc/rrdcollect.conf SEE ALSO
rrdcollect(8), rrdtool(1), pcre(3) AUTHOR
Dawid Kuroczko <qnex@knm.org.pl> Artur R. Czechowski <arturcz@hell.pl> 2 September 2002 RRDcollect 0.2.10 RRDCOLLECT.CONF(5)
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