From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 10 16:18:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from knecht.sendmail.org (knecht.sendmail.org [209.31.233.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E4D14C59 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:18:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mckusick@flamingo.McKusick.COM) Received: from flamingo.McKusick.COM (root@flamingo.mckusick.com [209.31.233.178]) by knecht.sendmail.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00761; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flamingo.McKusick.COM (mckusick@localhost.concentric.net [127.0.0.1]) by flamingo.McKusick.COM (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA28130; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907102047.NAA28130@flamingo.McKusick.COM> To: dg@root.com Subject: Re: Uptime basics!!! Cc: Chris Fedde , junkmale@xtra.co.nz, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:03:07 PDT." <199907102303.QAA21179@implode.root.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:47:01 -0700 From: Kirk McKusick Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To: Chris Fedde cc: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mckusick@mckusick.com Subject: Re: Uptime basics!!! In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 Jul 1999 01:49:26 MDT." <199907100749.BAA98281@fedde.littleton.co.us> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:03:07 -0700 Sender: root@implode.root.com The BSD 4.3 book is wrong then. I just looked at the 4.3 sources and it also includes short term waits in the load. David is correct, the load average is computed from length of the run queue plus number of short term sleepers. The number is calculated once per second, and kept in 1, 5, and 15 minute averages. Kirk McKusick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message