Finding true load average on server
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Problem
How can I display the true load average on a server ?
Solution
Getting the load average from the command line
- Telnet into the Nitix server and log in as an admin user.
- This command will give the true number. It displays the current system load statistics as reported by the kernel.
cat /proc/loadavg
Understanding WebConfig load average display
Now that WebConfig's load average display is capped at 100% (Nitix v3.72#17 and up), you might want to use this for more details.
The numbers are, in order:
- 1-minute load average
- 5-minute load average
- 15-minute load average
- number of runnable/total processes
- process count
The load average numbers are usually the most useful. 1.0 corresponds to 100% load, 2.0 to 200%, etc. To be precise, this is the number of processes that want to run on average. So if you have a dual CPU machine, 2.0 corresponds to 100% load, 4.0 to 200%, etc.
