On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 12:40:17AM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:27:22PM -0400, Alex @ Avantel Systems wrote: > > Is there some usefull way of interpreting the System Activity reports to > > determine if the load on my system is more than it should be. For example > > that 1, 5, 15 minute average we get with "uptime" as well as the results of > > the command "sar" and then of course the full report obtained with > > "less /var/log/sa/sar05" (all assuming it's redhat or fedora - don't know > > about other distros) > > The 1, 5, and 15 minute averages are the average number of processes > ready to run for the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. If this is less than 1, > you have cpu to spare. > > I've heard that if you have a sparc machine, the number can be up to > 10 and you're still ok... Its "1" per processor. So on an 8-way box a load average of 8.00 means you're running the machine at full capacity. mh -- Martin Hicks || mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org || PGP/GnuPG: 0x4C7F2BEE