load average

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:15:16 -0500
Pierre Abbat <phma at phma.optus.nu> wrote:

> I just rebooted ('cause I recompiled the kernel the other day) and
> restarted KDE. When I do this on DFly and run top, the load average is
> about 1.5. When I do it on Linux, the load average shoots up to 11 or 20
> or higher. In both OSes, the computer is slow to respond and makes lots
> of disk noises. I think what's happening is, processes that are waiting
> for the disk are counted as running in Linux but not in DFly. Is there a
> way to tell how busy the system is that includes disk usage?

	You can use systat -v to get a very detailed picture of what's
going on with CPU, swap, disc activity, interrupts and VM activity.

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