[Orca-users] Re: Load Average - 15 min larger than 1 min

[Blair Zajac]

I haven't seen this before and don't know why this would happen,

Since orcallator.se uses the load averages provided by the SE toolkit,
it may be interesting to email the SE folks at

    se-feedback at chessie.eng.sun.com

to get an answer to your question.

Regards,
Blair

Tim Ebbers wrote:
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>  Hello,
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> I have a concern with the way load average is being calculated.  It
> seems that on a couple of my servers, the 15 min average is higher in
> load than the 1 min and the 5 min averages.
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> My question is how can a 15 min average be highger than both the 1 min
> and the 5 min averages?  I would expect, due to the law of averages,
> that the 1 min and 5 min be higher than the 15 min average. What am I
> missing.
> 
> Thanks for the help
> 
> Tim Ebbers
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