From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 10 18:55:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01070 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 18:55:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from enigami.com (enigami.com [208.140.182.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01057 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 18:55:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ckempf@enigami.com) Received: from [208.140.182.45] (symphony.enigami.com [208.140.182.45]) by enigami.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA07844; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 21:53:59 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: ckempfm@enigami.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980310152257.00a5b3c0@colonel.42inc.com> References: <19980306164853.AAA27430@stimpy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 21:48:59 -0500 To: Jamie Lawrence , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Cory Kempf Subject: Re: Load Averages: what exactly do they mean? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 18:22 -0500 98.03.10, Jamie Lawrence wrote: >Hi - > >>From my reading of Design and Implementation of BSD4.4 >my understanding of the load average calculation is that >it is the total of the number of processes ready to run or >waiting on IO divided by the total number of processes. 'processORS'. It is an average of the length of the queue of processes waiting for the CPU. In other words, how bogged your system is. Try creating a program that consists of an infinate loop. Run several copies. +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message