Load average unit

Michenux · October 16, 2011, 6:24am

Hi,

On load average graph, unit is 100m, 200m, 300...800m.

I don't understand what it means.

Thx for helping

jlliagre · October 16, 2011, 8:47am

Load average is usually displayed without units so I guess that would just mean milli, i.e. 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 ... 0.8 (runnable processes).

chesti · October 16, 2011, 8:55am

Take attention that load avg differs from other systems.

Read "Load average calculations are different" for example : Solaris versus HP-UX

vbe · October 17, 2011, 8:13am

Well it does help to know what software you are talking about...
We like when people post in OS specific forums that they give more information like OS version and Architecture (e.g solaris: OS 5.10 sparc or solaris10 X64, HP: hp-ux11.31 Itanium or 11.11 PA-RISC...)