[FW-1] AW: [FW-1] Load averages on the Nokia platform

["Jones, Andrew, 2.12" <A.Jones@FW1-NOSPAMMVV.DE>]

Those numbers indicate the number of processes that are ready to be in the run state at any given time (i.e. processes in sleep states, wait states, etc. are not counted). If You have load averages of 1 or better, then the machine is normally always doing something. The one thing that can really throw that off is that processes  that are waiting on I/O are also counted as being in the run state. If You're running an NFS server (obviously not in this case) and are having network problems, a whole lot of processes can collect which will be counted for the load average, but they might be doing nothing more than waiting for a response from a client, which puts no load on the CPU.

 

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Von: Sam Denton [mailto:SDenton@EFAR.CO.UK]
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Betreff: [FW-1] Load averages on the Nokia platform

I have a question regarding the Nokia platform... when you type uptime into the command prompt you get the following output:-

 

' 4:54PM  up 87 days,  8:15, 2 users, load averages: 1.00, 1.02, 1.00 '

 

Would anyone know what the three numbers at the end of this statement mean? I know they are load averages... but what does each one do?

 

Thankyou in advance for help with this matter.

Regards,

Sam Denton - Security Analyst
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