Hi, On a multiprocessor box, I'm seeing the following loads.
top: load averages: 1.18, 1.17, 1.16 15:48:11 49 processes: 48 idle, 1 on processor CPU0 states: 2.8% user, 0.0% nice, 0.6% system, 0.0% interrupt, 96.6% idle CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle CPU2 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle CPU3 states: 0.2% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.8% idle uptime: 3:48PM up 15 days, 19:59, 2 users, load averages: 1.15, 1.17, 1.16 These seem like high average loads to me but the server is idling (as shown by CPU usage in top). I understood that load averages were related to the number of processes in the run-queue (i.e. waiting to get some processor time) so average loads above 1 would show a processing bottleneck. Did I get this wrong? If so, what do the load averages show and what would be a high load for a dual CPU (4 core) system? Thanks dave
