different commands to check the load average in linux.Loadaverage is the system load,which is a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs.When you run the command in output,you will see one, five, and fifteen minute moving load average of the system.The practical of load average command is done in Red Hat,CentOS,Ubuntu and Debian system.
ubuntu@ip-172-31-93-130:/$ cat /proc/loadavg
0.00 0.00 0.00 2/196 7337
ubuntu@ip-172-31-93-130:/$ubuntu@ip-172-31-93-130:/$ w
10:47:40 up 3:28, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.02, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
ubuntu pts/0 49.36.134.191 07:19 4.00s 0.16s 0.00s w
ubuntu@ip-172-31-93-130:/$ubuntu@ip-172-31-93-130:/$ uptime
10:48:42 up 3:29, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00
ubuntu@ip-172-31-93-130:/$ubuntu@ip-172-31-93-130:/$ top
top - 10:49:24 up 3:30, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 120 total, 1 running, 79 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0.0 us, 0.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 99.8 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem : 15650116 total, 14640708 free, 479316 used, 530092 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16777212 free, 0 used. 14870788 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 20 0 159732 8980 6676 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.37 systemd
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
4 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H
6 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mm_percpu_wq
7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 ksoftirqd/0
