To Check the load average in linux

To Check the load average in linux

1) loadavg file

oracle@testdb 11.1.0]$ cat /proc/loadavg

17.72 17.59 17.93 2/472 22465


2) “w”  command

oracle@testdb 11.1.0]$ w

13:50:42 up 4 days,  5:20,  6 users,  load average: 17.87, 17.64, 17.93

USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
root     pts/1    :1.0             Sun11    2:28m  0.03s  1.66s gnome-terminal
root     pts/2    172.16.80.74     Wed10    2:43m  0.01s  0.00s -bash
root     pts/3    172.16.80.74     Wed10   52:53   0.04s  0.01s -bash
root     pts/4    172.16.80.74     Wed14    0.00s  0.02s  0.01s w

3) uptime command

oracle@testdb 11.1.0]$ uptime

13:50:30 up 4 days,  5:19,  6 users,  load average: 17.82, 17.62, 17.93


4) top command

top - 13:58:29 up 4 days,  5:27,  6 users,  load average: 16.98, 17.78, 17.95
Tasks: 457 total,   1 running, 456 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.3%us,  0.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 82.0%id, 17.6%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  16104528k total, 16081828k used,    22700k free,    29076k buffers
Swap: 18481144k total,   345656k used, 18135488k free, 13289392k cached