[mrtg] Re: Load vs CPU

[Corey Goldberg]

Load is the average number of processes in the CPU's run queue (waiting for time on the processor), whereas CPU utilization is the percentage of CPU cycles that are currently utilized for doing work.  Both can be interesting to watch and can tell you different things about the nature of a system's processing health

-Corey Goldberg


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Steele <bsteele at morrisprintinggroup.com>
Sent: Feb 22, 2005 1:54 PM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Load vs CPU

 
Please excuse my ignorance.Can someone explain the difference between
average load and CPU utilization?

 

Brian



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