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If I have a quad core server, should top's load average show four values?

  • 23-10-2008 09:22PM
    #1
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭


    Hello

    I hope someone can help me with this.

    I have a quad core server. The first five lines of 'top' looks like this -

    [PHP]
    top - 21:21:02 up 169 days, 9:22, 4 users, load average: 0.20, 0.38, 0.41
    Tasks: 127 total, 1 running, 126 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
    Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.1% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.3% id, 0.6% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
    Mem: 2074696k total, 1944636k used, 130060k free, 404968k buffers
    Swap: 2040212k total, 45640k used, 1994572k free, 948364k cached
    [/PHP]

    The load average on the first line only shows three values. Should it show four?

    Any help appreciated.

    Thanks!


Comments

  • #2
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,478 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    No, that's correct.

    "The three load-average values in the first line of top output are the 1-minute, 5-minute and 15-minute average"
    http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9001


  • #3
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    Nice one. Cheers!


  • #4
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,478 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    Hmmm - 2Gb's memory & quad-core?
    You're bottlenecking at the memory.

    I'd flog two cores and double the memory! :)


  • #5
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    That's not a bad idea. I will look into it. (Doubling the memory, not losing two cores!)

    Cheers!


  • #6
    deRanged
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭deRanged


    you can always tell top to show the individual loads on each processor by typing the character '1' as it's running.


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  • #7
    steve-hosting36
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,161 ✭✭✭steve-hosting36


    exacty, which will then show all cores...


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