Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 10:13:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: 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.2.00.0905251012560.36458@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <200905250716.n4P7GMM4015599@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200905250716.n4P7GMM4015599@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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>> 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. > > You are mistaken. I think what you are referring to is the percentage of no i'm not. doing lots of I/O and little CPU load produces high "load average". the explanation from the book is wrong.
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