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/etc/watchdog.conf

Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:19 pm

max-load-1=24
reboot the device if the load goes over 24 over 1 minute. you would have needed 24 Raspberry Pi to complete that task in 1 minute

what does that means?

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Re: /etc/watchdog.conf

Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:29 pm

if the load is massive then reboot ....
i.e. the load over one min is > 24 then you would of needed 24 raspberries to complete that task...

I've not seen that exact wording before
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Re: /etc/watchdog.conf

Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:18 pm

If you type the command man uptime, you will read the definition of system load average:
System load averages is the average number of processes that are either in a runnable or uninterruptable state. A process in a runnable state is either using the CPU or waiting to use the CPU. A process in uninterruptable state is waiting for some I/O access, eg waiting for disk. The averages are taken over the three time intervals. Load averages are not normalized for the number of CPUs in a system, so a load average of 1 means a single CPU system is loaded all the time while on a 4 CPU system it means it was idle 75% of the time.

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