Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:18:20 -0500 (EST) From: Brad Watts <bwatts@corp.netcom.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Load Averages Message-ID: <200102152018.f1FKIKb03748@corp.netcom.ca>
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Just a few silly questions. 1) What exactly is load a measure of and how is it measured? 2) Why are there 3 separate numbers for load (i.e. load averages: 0.06, 0.08, 0.15) 3) Why is there always at least 1 zombie process running (i.e. 33 processes: 1 running, 31 sleeping, 1 zombie) 4) What is the 'nice' CPU state ? (i.e. CPU states: 7.3% user, 0.0% nice, 8.9% system, 2.7% interrupt, 81.1% idle) 5) What is the significance of the following headings? PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 256 root 2 0 2496K 396K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sendmail PRI: RES: STATE: TIME: WCPU: Thanks Brad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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