How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and
total CPU use ~5%
Wojciech Puchar
wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Mon May 25 17:13:10 UTC 2009
> I think Wojciech means '...which is NOT measure of CPU _utilization_'
exactly what i said.
>
> In that case he's correct: whenever the CPU has to wait a lot for I/O,
> like network and disk, then the _load_ will go up, while the CPU
> _utilization_ stays low.
and that's inconsistent with explanation that load average is measure of
CPU load.
it's not.
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