Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 21:48:59 -0500 From: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com> To: Jamie Lawrence <jal@42is.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Load Averages: what exactly do they mean? Message-ID: <v04003a03b12baba0760e@[208.140.182.45]> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980310152257.00a5b3c0@colonel.42inc.com> References: <19980306164853.AAA27430@stimpy>
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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: <http://www.enigami.com/~ckempf/chipmerchant.html>; Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com <http://www.enigami.com/~ckempf/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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