Re: Difference between a LOADed CPU & a non IDLE CPU ???

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From: Peter Sundstrom
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 03:41

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Cyrille MAUCCI <cyrille.maucci@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am desperately looking for an answer to the following question:
> when my Unix system is getting slow, I just run 'top'
> sometimes, the average LOAD is high (at least 3), but CPU seems to be IDLE
(close to 100%)
> sometimes, the average LOAD is correct (around 1), but CPU seems to
work!!!
>
> I think I understand what the CPU TIME processing is, but I don't see how
a machine can be LOADed with no CPU consuming process...
> Can you help me on this?

Load averages are just that; an average.  The three sets of figures are the
1 min, 5min and 15min averages.

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Subject: Re: Difference between a LOADed CPU & a non IDLE CPU ???
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