Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 01:07:00 -0500 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: Jason Francis <bsdsup@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load Averages Message-ID: <20010605010658.A21121@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <F266PmsSVhGOD6gx3lK000114d7@hotmail.com>; from bsdsup@hotmail.com on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 07:21:05PM -0400 References: <F266PmsSVhGOD6gx3lK000114d7@hotmail.com>
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Jason Francis (bsdsup@hotmail.com) wrote: > Can someone tell me exactly how load averages are determined? man 1 w: "The load average numbers give the number of jobs in the run queue averaged over 1, 5 and 15 minutes" IIRC, all processes are either on the run queue or the sleep queue. Obviously, the higher the numbers, the more processes are queued up waiting for the CPU, the harder your CPU is working, etc. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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