But all is not as it appears. The Wizard behind the Curtain The load-average calculation is best thought of as a moving average of processes in Linux's run queue marked running or uninterruptible. The ...

Under Linux, CPU usage is reported as a series of three decimals like the following result of the ‘uptime’ command: The first decimal represents the average CPU load over the past minute.

I have numerous systems running kernel 2.2.16-22 (RedHat 7.0), that have ALL exhibited very odd load average figures ... is not running on another Linux system I have remote access to, so off ...

Stressing your Linux servers ... see how the load averages increase and then start going down again once the loops have been ended. 11:25:34 up 5 days, 17:27, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0. ...