Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
Brendan Gregg
AUGUST 8, 2017
Load averages are an industry-critical metric – my company spends millions auto-scaling cloud instances based on them and other metrics – but on Linux there's some mystery around them. But to understand them in more detail is difficult without the aid of other metrics. TABLE OF EXP(-T/C) FOR T = 5 SEC.
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