Ok, but I'm still confused. How is the load averages calculated? Is
it (processor time per task)/ (total processor time)?
On Sun, 04 Jul 1999 00:02:12 ric, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>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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