From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 25 08:04:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADE7B1065679 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 08:04:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f165.google.com (mail-bw0-f165.google.com [209.85.218.165]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3015C8FC17 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 08:04:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so3000283bwz.43 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 01:04:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=x9b0vqVkEfB1I1igkyhpv7ryWMYsCXL3kFcTiBQZxA0=; b=RS+nSa94vneNkkSFXfwCcieZ7SPgvaLKlJmh4mB6utQp030aPqJfFH/yb/k9lgE99a NOEoiaudm1066VkMB2o05ZLv5xPY/j0YbpE+YzO8Ci/cizFvaQ6J5T5ci3KJC9mjgEJK IUzdSeQrzTDqATq0Wium8s9OhAFWnp6PX2mxE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ug7GVKhkfVrztwnYzv1djE5VNcODANtFLu+8T6XtJNfiSdL1k5QJXomkwQ8Ag2JR1P Dx/yO+JTRsGSFFObI2GUxbHAaAMNFsoMdeh81OrSax53gj+Pv/a9hYBy237YCVgijoNc ZaLMDbexGxgbmRV5d4tlaqYCpFpEb0//FaIdU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.113.198 with SMTP id b6mr6715197bkq.115.1243238697123; Mon, 25 May 2009 01:04:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <200905241315.n4ODFB96007801@mp.cs.niu.edu> From: Chris Rees Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 09:04:37 +0100 Message-ID: To: Wojciech Puchar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Yuri , Scott Bennett , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5% X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 08:04:59 -0000 2009/5/24 Wojciech Puchar : >> =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?