Patrick Mau wrote: > On all Unix-like systems I know, the load average is the average mumber > of processes running during a given time interval. I can't see what use > it may have to count load for _waiting_ processes. > > I/O load is not process load, if a process waits for I/O completion it does > not use up its timeslice. I think we ought to re-examine the definition of load average. By load, we mean an actual load on the cpu, and waiting processes aren't really exerting a cpu load. So, by that reasoning I say waiting processes don't count. - Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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