Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 09:04:37 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5% Message-ID: <b79ecaef0905250104p55c302cdh102202d1a06a389b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905242021440.33060@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <200905241315.n4ODFB96007801@mp.cs.niu.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905242021440.33060@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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2009/5/24 Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>: >> =A0 =A0From the glossary (p. 630) of _The_Design_and_Implementation_of_t= he >> _FreeBSD_Operating_System_ by McKusick and Neville-Neil: >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0load average =A0A measure of CPU load on the system. =A0T= he load >> average >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0in FreeBSD is an average of the number of= processes ready >> to >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0run or waiting for short-term events such= as disk I/O to >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0complete, as sampled once per second over= the previous one- >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0minute 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. > Er, what? Of course it is! Chris --=20 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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