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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 17:59:44 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 17:59:44 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 42.0.upstream/42.0upstream
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diff --git a/help/C/process-loadaverage.page.stub b/help/C/process-loadaverage.page.stub new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b21b9a --- /dev/null +++ b/help/C/process-loadaverage.page.stub @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" + type="topic" style="task" + id="process-loadaverage"> + <info> + <revision version="0.1" date="2011-08-19" status="stub"/> + <link type="guide" xref="index" group="processes-info" /> + + <credit type="author copyright"> + <name>Phil Bull</name> + <email>philbull@gmail.com</email> + <years>2011</years> + </credit> + + <credit type="author copyright"> + <name>Michael Hill</name> + <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email> + <years>2011</years> + </credit> + + <desc>The <em>load average</em> tells you how much work your computer has + been doing over the past few minutes.</desc> + </info> + + <title>What is the load average?</title> + + <comment> + <cite date="2011-06-18" href="mailto:philbull@gmail.com">Phil Bull</cite> + <p>Explain how to interpret the load averages quoted on the Processes tab.</p> + </comment> + + <p>The <gui>load average</gui> shows the load on the CPU over three different + time intervals, one minute, five minutes and fifteen minutes. These are displayed + on the <gui>Processes</gui> tab above the process list, and are an indicator of + system processing capacity.</p> + + <p>The <em>load</em> is the number of processes currently running plus the + number of processes <em>queued</em> to run on the system's CPU(s). A load + showing a utilization of 100% would be roughly 1.0 times the number of CPUs or + <link xref="cpu-multicore">cores</link> in the system; load averages constantly + hitting this number would indicate that the system is fully-loaded with no + processes waiting for processor time. Lower numbers indicate that the system's + processing power is sufficient for the processes being run, while numbers that + are consistently higher might mean more processing power is needed.</p> + + <p>Three intervals are shown so that spikes and trends in the numbers can be + taken into account: if the load average spikes higher in the one- or + five-minute intervals, but settles down below the 100% mark over the + fifteen-minute interval, system processing capacity is probably sufficient.</p> + +</page> |