[wplug] system load

[Michael Semcheski]

Lower numbers are better.  I believe its the average number of jobs in
the processor queue over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes.

How high is too high?  If you can tell that your system is overworked
without looking at the actual system load, then the load is too high.

Mike

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Zach Uram <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure exactly how Linux calculates the system load. What is a
> good system load and what is bad?
>
> Right now my system feels rather sluggish and I have:
>
> load average: 0.84, 0.91, 1.07
>
> Zach
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