[HPADM] What does "load average" in top output mean?

From: Daiminger, Helmut (HELMUT.DAIMINGER@WWK.DE)
Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 10:10:12 EDT

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Hi,

what does the metric "load average" in the top output mean? How is that
metric calculated?

Is it a good rule of thumb that the load average should not be greater
than the number of processors on the machine?

System: serv159 Wed Oct 27
16:07:35 2004
Load averages: 0.24, 0.18, 0.15
547 processes: 490 sleeping, 46 running, 11 zombies

This is HP-UX 11.11 (64 bit).

Thanks,
Helmut

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