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Load Averages

list Rich Smrcina
Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:33:28 -0500
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Gavin Leonard wrote:
I am getting pages from my hobbit server when some of my linux systems are hitting 15 on their load avg. does that equate to something worse than it sounds? Cause 15% load average on a linux system does not seem that bad? Or is it not a percentage?
Your thinking CPU Utilization.  Load Average measures the number of running processes.

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