09-24-2008
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Originally Posted by
avronius
Once the number exceeds the total number of processors, this means that there are cpu requests waiting for cpu time. It does not mean that the system is operating at 110%, but merely that there are more requests than can be handled in the time period specified.
Over the course of n minutes, this may return to a manageable level for the server, or may continue. If you find that your host is consistently overloaded, you may need to look at augmenting your host (replacing existing CPU's with more/faster CPU's, adding more or faster memory), or replacing it with a more powerful system. Other options include offloading some of the processes to another server, but this may result in more i/o waits, potentially affecting performance in other ways.
Thanks for your response. I agree with you. I get this High average load since last two weeks. I see there are lot of CPU idle time. CPU idle time is always 40%. My confusion is, if the CPU is idle, why the average load is going high. Any thoughts...
Thanks and appreciate your response.
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UPTIME(1) User Commands UPTIME(1)
NAME
uptime - Tell how long the system has been running.
SYNOPSIS
uptime [options]
DESCRIPTION
uptime gives a one line display of the following information. The current time, how long the system has been running, how many users are
currently logged on, and the system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.
This is the same information contained in the header line displayed by w(1).
System load averages is the average number of processes that are either in a runnable or uninterruptable state. A process in a runnable
state is either using the CPU or waiting to use the CPU. A process in uninterruptable state is waiting for some I/O access, eg waiting for
disk. The averages are taken over the three time intervals. Load averages are not normalized for the number of CPUs in a system, so a
load average of 1 means a single CPU system is loaded all the time while on a 4 CPU system it means it was idle 75% of the time.
OPTIONS
-p, --pretty
show uptime in pretty format
-h, --help
display this help text
-s, --since
system up since, in yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS format
-V, --version
display version information and exit
FILES
/var/run/utmp
information about who is currently logged on
/proc process information
AUTHORS
uptime was written by Larry Greenfield <greenfie@gauss.rutgers.edu> and Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@sunsite.unc.edu>
SEE ALSO
ps(1), top(1), utmp(5), w(1)
REPORTING BUGS
Please send bug reports to <procps@freelists.org>
procps-ng December 2012 UPTIME(1)