Re: loadavg - system performance

2010-01-17 Thread David Timms
On 17/01/10 13:09, Aldo Foot wrote: > So, you run 'top' and similar commands to display the load average on > your system. > And you find that is showing a 2 and you have only one CPU. > > What's your expertise dealing with high CPU demand? tweaks? kernel tricks? > When do the numbers begin to be m

loadavg - system performance

2010-01-16 Thread Aldo Foot
So, you run 'top' and similar commands to display the load average on your system. And you find that is showing a 2 and you have only one CPU. What's your expertise dealing with high CPU demand? tweaks? kernel tricks? When do the numbers begin to be meaningful to you? under what circumstances? ~a