[HPADM] What does "load average" in top output mean?

From: Daiminger, Helmut (HELMUT.DAIMINGER_at_wwk.de)
Date: 10/27/04

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    Hi,

    what does the metric "load average" in the top output mean? How is that
    metric calculated?

    Is it a good rule of thumb that the load average should not be greater
    than the number of processors on the machine?

    System: serv159 Wed Oct 27
    16:07:35 2004
    Load averages: 0.24, 0.18, 0.15
    547 processes: 490 sleeping, 46 running, 11 zombies

    This is HP-UX 11.11 (64 bit).

    Thanks,
    Helmut 

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