Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
Brendan Gregg
AUGUST 8, 2017
If they are higher than your CPU count, then you might have a performance problem (it depends). TABLE OF EXP(-T/C) FOR T = 5 SEC. EXPFF: EXP 0.920043902 ;C = 1 MIN EXP 0.983471344 ;C = 5 MIN EXP 0.994459811 ;C = 15 MIN. It's time in some cgroup paths, but this server is not doing much disk I/O.
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