On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 03:16, A. Lanza wrote: > Hi list, > > I use to have the Gnome system monitor applet on my panel to have a > better understanding of what's happening on my system at a given time. > > I think i do not have a good understanding of the average load meter. It > stays very low, <10%, most of the time, even when CPU time usage and RAM > memory usage are near 100%. Any idea of how is to be intepreted average > load meter? > > Thanks Without looking at any code, I will tell you what I have assumed it represents. I assume it is one of the load averages reported by the uptime command. As I understand, these they are averages over different periods of time of the number of processes in the CPU queue. I also use the system monitor applet and I think the reason it stays so low is simply a graph scaling issue. Fire up several cpu intensive jobs (maybe just adding 1+1 many times) and you will see it climb up a bit. -- Graham Campbell <gc1111@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
