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Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

Brendan Gregg

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.

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