The quickest way, if you are connecting remotely, is to log in to the Nokia and type "uptime". You will then see three load average numbers: The first number is the average load over the last minute, the second number is average load over the last five minutes, and the last number is the average load over the last 15 minutes.

Load is actually the number of processes requesting the CPU over that average interval.

For example, if I have 1 process requesting the CPU over a one minute time period, my load average would be 1.0 over the last minute.

The reason I point this out is it is possible to have loads of higher than 1.0.

If your load average looks like this:

0.98 0.71 0.59

It means over the long average, I have 0.59 processes requesting the CPU for every 1 CPU cycle, or my load is APPROXIMATELY 59%. I say approximately because when processes switch on and off the CPU, the context switching also takes time and processing away from the CPU.

A load average of:

2.00 1.85 0.63

Means I have a lot of short term requests for the CPU, but over the long average, I have more than enough CPU for all requesting processes.

The other way to see the load is go into Voyager and there is an option to see CPU load (which is the same output, just on a web page).


This brings up a question I have: Does anybody know if the "top" program has been ported to IPSO? If so, where can it be obtained?