[CentOS] Big load

Marek Dabrowski marek.dabrowski at infor.pl
Thu Aug 17 15:29:06 UTC 2006


Les Mikesell napisał(a):
> On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 09:18 -0400, Linus Hicks wrote:
> 
>> Okay, I'm having a disconnect here. None of these graphs make sense to me. The 
>> system load as stated in the legend on the graphs is composed of 1, 5, and 15 
>> minute averages. Under steady load conditions, these averages should converge. 
>> The graphs don't show that, although the numbers listed do. The graph seems to 
>> be showing the additive value of all three load averages which is bogus (or at 
>> least misleading).
> 
> What graphing tool are you using?  If you have the sysstat package
> installed,

isag - it is  in crontab

> 'sar -A' will give you ten-minute snapshots of the values among lots of
> other things that might help you understand what is happening.

I changed default perid gathering stats to 1 min.



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