Linux Server Monitoring

Linux Server Monitoring

sar command

top command

Load Averages

• Load average – is the average system load calculated over a given period of time of 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
• The numbers are read from left to right, and the output above means that:
  • load average over the last 1 minute is 1.11.
  • load average over the last 5 minutes is 1.17.
  • load average over the last 15 minutes is 0.91.

References