Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 20:22:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5% Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905242021440.33060@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <200905241315.n4ODFB96007801@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200905241315.n4ODFB96007801@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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> From the glossary (p. 630) of _The_Design_and_Implementation_of_the > _FreeBSD_Operating_System_ by McKusick and Neville-Neil: > > load average A measure of CPU load on the system. The load average > in FreeBSD is an average of the number of processes ready to > run or waiting for short-term events such as disk I/O to > complete, as sampled once per second over the previous one- > minute interval of system operation. > so this glossary should be fixed because it's nonsense. first - says that it's measure of CPU load then - "or waiting for short-term events such as disk I/O" - which is NOT measure of CPU load.
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