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Subject: Re: kern/10411: top, vmstat, iostat show 0% cpu idle & usage on SMP     
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Shaun Rowland wrote:

> > Another thing comes to my mind: The system reports a loadavg of
> > about 2.00, shouldn't it be around 1.00 with two jobs running on two
> > CPUs ?
> 
> That depends on your version of top.  In Solaris and FreeBSD this
> behavior is correct.

.. and that's the way loadavg is defined as I just found out in "The
Design and Implementation of the 4.[34] BSD Operating System". However,
I don't like it too much. I mean my point is: When I call getloadavg(3),
most of the time I am interested in my "systems load" and less in my
"systems run queue length". E.g. how to find out if it is worth spawning
another process/thread.

Christoph


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