Hi

I get this information on my raq4, whats the meaning of 0.06 avarage? and how much more would a rag4 handel? before he starting been slowly?

I heard that rag4 can handel 250 VS, so if you put 251 VS would he say; Sorry no more!!!

:D

15 minute CPU load average is 0.06
The processor is currently 35 degrees Celsius.


Regard,
babak

P.S: tnx evrybody on the form, evrytime I ask you gues a stopied question sutch as this one:rolleyes: you always give me a good anwser. TNX again.;)

This is simply the cpu load. If it were 100.00% then your server would be at max cpu load. This is not ideal of couse and would probably cause your box to stop or halt. .06% is good especially if you have a lot of sites running. This will increase with the workload the server has to do so dont expect this to stay a constant.

So 0.06 is in procents!!!?

Thats not high!!!??? Not high at al!!! My own Pc have a CPU of PIII and I have 80% CPU loaded!!!

TNX again.

Regard,
Babak

no, it is not a percent, just a number. Less than 3 is normally considered fine.

Frank

the highest mine ever went was 0.71

The load average is simply an indicator of how busy your CPU is. More specifically, it tells you (on average) how many processes are waiting (queued, so to speak) for CPU time over any given period of time.

.06 is perfectly fine. As Frank mentioned above, you can generally run a well-loaded server into the 3's without any problems. If you're holding 3.5/4+ on a regular basis, it is probably time to start thinking about distributing the load.

Brandon

I've seen 19.12, I then had to reboot the machine, but I have the email to prove it ;) (It was my personal RaQ3 development machine before you ask)

Our load has been as high as 30+ when we were getting badly hit by spider (that was not following the rules). It's not a RaQ, however.

Originally posted by psi
I've seen 19.12, I then had to reboot the machine, but I have the email to prove it ;)

you should frame it :D

12:37pm up 30 days, 8:39, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 :)

I've seen aletia's servers go up above 40 before so 0.06 is not too shabby...;)

Would anyone know specifically what the 3 numbers mean?

Load Averages : 0.00 0.06 0.09

I know that when it hits "1.00" for any of them it's a bad things (100% usage?), but would like to "what" exactly.

Thanks

1/5/15 minute load average. It's not a %.

I've seen mine as high as 60. Gotta be careful to close those perl scripts when you're learning. :D

Here is a little information about load average: http://web.gat.com/docview/load_average.html

OK, good info so far and a little confusing. If, as stated "it is the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes", two questions come immediately to mind.

I. Why use a percentage format?
2. The "15" minute should also be higher than the "5" and the "5" higher than the "1", but this is not so?

I have my page set to a 15 sec. refresh and have just seen the numbers go from:

0.12 / 0.04 / 0.00 -to- 0.00 / 0.04 / 0.01

Should not the "5 min" have changed to 0.16 and the "15 min" changed to 0.13?

Originally posted by Website Rob
OK, good info so far and a little confusing. If, as stated "it is the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes", two questions come immediately to mind.

I. Why use a percentage format?
2. The "15" minute should also be higher than the "5" and the "5" higher than the "1", but this is not so?

I have my page set to a 15 sec. refresh and have just seen the numbers go from:

0.12 / 0.04 / 0.00 -to- 0.00 / 0.04 / 0.01

Should not the "5 min" have changed to 0.16 and the "15 min" changed to 0.13?

You've misunderstood how it works. First of all, it is the number of jobs (nor percentage). For example, lets say for example your CPU is working on 100% and some programs have to wait to be executed. This will raise the average load. So, the average load is how many jobs that have to wait to be executed.

Second of all, the 15 number will most likely be the lowest number since it covers a longer timeframe. For example, if your 1 min load average goes on 0.50 (which means on average there was 0.5 jobs waiting to be executed in the last minute), then your 5 min average will probably be 0.10 (0.50 / 5 mins) and your 15 min load average 0.03 (0.50 / 15 mins). Of course, this example is only true if your load average is 0.00 for and for one minute jumps up to 0.50. Now, it could be the other way around. For example, if your load average has been 1.50 for the past 15 minutes, but in the last minute, all jobs have been executed and your 1 min load average is on 0.00. This will make your 5 min load average show 1.20 and your 15 min load average will show 1.40.

I just read it myself and I don't know if I'm making too much sense. But I hope it helps you and I hope I understood this whole thing correctly myself, hehe.

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