How to interpret CPU load on Linux. analysis. May 19, 2014 4 mins. Computers and Peripherals Linux Virtualization. ... The first decimal represents the average CPU load over the past minute.

The load-average calculation is best thought of as a moving average of processes in Linux's run queue marked running or uninterruptible. The words “thought of” were chosen for a reason: that is how ...

I have numerous systems running kernel 2.2.16-22 (RedHat 7.0), that have ALL exhibited very odd load average figures. With NO processes running, load ...

When administrators mention high load, generally they are talking about the load average. When I diagnose why a server is slow, the first command I run when I log in to the system is uptime: $ uptime ...