Ejecutando las siguientes sentencias en la consola de bash (en este caso) podremos comprobar la carga de nuestro servidor linux (load average).
1.) Mostrando el contenido del fichero /proc/loadavg
root@localhost:~]# cat /proc/loadavg
0.44 0.60 0.48 1/243 20067
2.) Usando el comando uptime
[root@localhost ~]# uptime
08:25:33 up 306 days, 16:56, 1 user, load average: 0.66, 0.65, 0.51
3.) Usando el comando top
[root@localhost ~]# top
top – 08:26:25 up 306 days, 16:57, 1 user, load average: 0.78, 0.68, 0.53
Tasks: 198 total, 2 running, 196 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 4.7%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 91.4%id, 2.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 8060520k total, 7471520k used, 589000k free, 773120k buffers
Swap: 8191992k total, 159952k used, 8032040k free, 5127348k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
17570 mysql 20 0 2318m 207m 5116 S 4.3 2.6 335:33.24 mysqld
20299 nobody 20 0 265m 36m 7152 S 2.7 0.5 0:03.79 httpd
20638 nobody 20 0 276m 47m 6956 S 2.7 0.6 0:01.94 httpd
20676 nobody 20 0 260m 28m 7108 S 2.7 0.4 0:02.02 httpd
20677 nobody 20 0 256m 26m 6904 S 2.7 0.3 0:01.53 httpd
20649 nobody 20 0 171m 36m 6880 S 2.3 0.5 0:01.34 httpd
20803 nobody 20 0 162m 27m 6612 S 2.3 0.3 0:00.60 httpd
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 2.0 0.0 4513:43 ksoftirqd/1
17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.7 0.0 4209:11 ksoftirqd/3
20298 nobody 20 0 278m 49m 7268 S 1.7 0.6 0:04.31 httpd
20648 nobody 20 0 281m 51m 7280 R 1.3 0.7 0:03.60 httpd
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 9061:24 ksoftirqd/0
13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 8290:17 ksoftirqd/2
1 root 20 0 19232 436 272 S 0.0 0.0 1:17.39 init