I hope folks have used up their hostility about RTFM answers in the last
little bit about y2k :-). This really is an RTFM question, and which
Fine Manual is even obvious to me.
man top, in the section
FIELD DESCRIPTIONS
uptime
describes what periods the load averages are for, and what they
represent. You may wonder what it means by processes ready to run,
perhaps. It means they are not blocked waiting for IO or a signal,
IOW they are waiting for the CPU. Okay, It doesn't give a formula. For
that I think you will have to read the fine code.
Lawson
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On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Geoff wrote:
> This may be somewhat nonpractical, but how exactly are load averages
> calculated? I know that my load average sits at about 0.5 most of the
> time, and that higher numbers mean higher load, but how exactly is it
> calculated? CPU usage times ram used divided by pi or something? And
> also, when i run top, there are 3 numbers for load average. (Average
for
> the last minute, last hour, last day?)
>
> Thanks,
> Geoff
>
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