Subj : Admin email
To   : DieselMan
From : Deuce
Date : Mon Aug 22 2005 11:49 am

  Re: Admin email
  By: DieselMan to All on Mon Aug 22 2005 02:17:00

 > from:root@localhost
 > subject:draklog mail alert
 > 
 > load is huge 3.09
 > 
 > several of these mails in the last 24 hours with different #'s like 3.49, 3.
 > etc
 > 
 > what does this mean exactly?

When you do an uptime, it shows you the load average load over the last 1, 5,
and 15 minutes.  "average load" is the average number of process waiting for
the CPU.  On my BBS box for example (An AMD K6/300 with 64MB of RAM)  the loads
are 0.02m 0.04, and 0.03.  In general anything over 1 means that you're at 100%
CPU usage.  If it's over two, it means that process aren't being serviced as
fast as they need the CPU.

Most likely, there's five or so processes using up all your CPU, use top to
track them down.

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