Comments on: Understand Linux Load Averages and Monitor Performance of Linux

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Sat, 09 May 2020 11:04:20 +0000

In reply to Peter.

@Peter

Thanks for sharing, we will check it out and review the article soon.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 08 May 2020 15:15:32 +0000

This is an inaccurate article. The load average does not only involve the CPU. I found a more in-depth article here: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html.

By: Zeeshan

Zeeshan — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:50:36 +0000

I agree with Trenton that this article is inaccurate. CPU is only of the factors that can cause high load. My server has 40% CPU usage, but the load is 2.5.

By: Prasad

Prasad — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:39:11 +0000

Which can be most critical, 1min 5min or 15 min?

By: Trenton D. Adams

Trenton D. Adams — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 07:56:50 +0000

This article is incorrect. Load average is not about CPU utilization, it's about process load. If an average of 4 processes are in the process queue, and all are waiting for disk, the load average would be 4, but the CPU utilization could be 20% on a single core system for example. Use "man proc" and search for load avg.