Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:35:18 -0500 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Load over 1000 Message-ID: <20050221223518.GA25518@VARK.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20050221213337.GC87259@opteron.dglawrence.com> References: <20050221210834.GB87259@opteron.dglawrence.com> <45820.1109020342@critter.freebsd.dk> <20050221213337.GC87259@opteron.dglawrence.com>
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On Mon, Feb 21, 2005, David G. Lawrence wrote: > > No, disk I/O sleeps is not involved. > > > > The loadavg is the length of the runqueue. Any process sleeping, > > on network, disk or timer, is not counted towards the total. > > I said "historically". :-) > This was changed in FreeBSD a some years ago. Even further back in history, TENEX computed the load average based on runnable jobs. :-P See footnote 1 of RFC 546.
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