Conky loadavg is flawed
Bug #175483 reported by
Jmadero
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| conky (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: conky
Loadavg is flawed in conky. I have loadavg + cpu monitoring and graphs for my duocore 2 and the loadavg consistently has non valid numbers. With my CPU monitors I had 15% or less for both, CPU graphs showed low usage but loadavg. showed 1.05 .8 and .75....I'm not even sure how it could get past 1, I always thought loadavg was cpu% use for 1 min, 5 min and 15 min.
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Thank you for your comments. Load average can be larger than one, in fact that is quite common. It does not equal average cpu usage for the given time periods, especially not on linux where I/O is also factored in. And then you'd have to consider the fact that you are using an smp system. In short: the numbers in your example are nothing out of the ordinary.