Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 04:57:22 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Jamie Lawrence <jal@42is.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Load Averages: what exactly do they mean? Message-ID: <199803121257.EAA11079@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 1998 15:22:57 PST." <3.0.3.32.19980310152257.00a5b3c0@colonel.42inc.com>
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>>From my reading of Design and Implementation of BSD4.4 >my understanding of the load average calculation is that >it is the total of the number of processes ready to run or >waiting on IO divided by the total number of processes. It's not a ratio. It is simply the average number of runnable processes plus those in short term wait (usually disk IO). -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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