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Operating Systems Solaris How is Load Average computed and what are better numbers? Post 302921441 by msgforsunil on Friday 17th of October 2014 05:24:29 AM
Old 10-17-2014
How is Load Average computed and what are better numbers?

Hello All,

What is load average and how is it computed in Solaris 10?

What are the different ranges for normal, warning and danger signs?

Kindly clarify.

Thank you,
Sunil Kumar

Last edited by msgforsunil; 10-17-2014 at 07:18 AM..
 

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MULTILOAD_APPLET(1)													       MULTILOAD_APPLET(1)

NAME
multiload_applet - Multiload (cpu, load average, memory, net, swap) applet for the GNOME panel. SYNOPSIS
multiload_applet [ --activate-goad-server[=GOAD_ID] ] DESCRIPTION
multiload_applet Contains 5 applets. CPU Load Applet. To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Applets->Monitors->CPULoad Load Average Applet. To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Applets->Monitors->Load Average Memory Applet. To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Applets->Monitors->MemLoad Net Applet. To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Applets->Monitors->NetLoad Swap Applet. To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Applets->Monitors->SwapLoad OPTIONS
--activate-goad-server (Internal use only) GOAD server ID to activate GOAD_ID may be: multiload_cpuload_applet start the cpu applet. multiload_loadavg_applet start the load average applet. multiload_memload_applet start the memory applet. multiload_netload_applet start the net applet. multiload_swapload_applet start the swap applet. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 10 februar 2002 MULTILOAD_APPLET(1)
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