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. I've never seen an explanation. Yes, I'd say so.
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