Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:35:58 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: joe@via.net (Joe McGuckin) Subject: Re: What does 'load' actually measure? Message-ID: <19970919093558.IZ28747@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199709182301.QAA23977@monk.via.net>; from Joe McGuckin on Sep 18, 1997 16:01:09 -0700 References: <199709182301.QAA23977@monk.via.net>
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As Joe McGuckin wrote: > Number of processes waiting in run queue? Yep, averaged for the recent 1, 5, and 15 minutes. I think the daemon book(s) describe the algorithm, and the motivation behind inventing it. It's not that this was ever intended to be used in userland code :), but it got a convenient method over time, so now there's even a standardized getloadavg(3). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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