> Ahh - you are asking at a different level to my previous answer...
>
> load average is one of these magic numbers, and you will find definitions
> for it along the lines of "the average number of jobs in the run queue".
> This means that each time the kernel came to schedule another job, there
> were on average <n> processes in a runnable state (ie not waiting on I/O
> etc) at the time. <n> is then the load average, and this can be an
> average over specific periods of time - normally 1, 5 and 15 minutes (the
> value used by exim will be the 1 minute load average).
>
Thanks for this, it explains what the numbers are about! We will probably
incorporate values (after experimentation!) just to make sure that the system
will be okay if the load does get high (for some reason).
Thanks again,
John.
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