Rikky Taylor <[email protected]> writes: > I am a little puzzled by how openbsd calculated load avaerage. > > I have a server running 4.9 i386 that should be doing very little indeed yet > has a consistent load average of 0.6-0.9 > > Other similar servers have consisten load averages of 0.05-0.1 > > when i do a "ps aux" it shows a small number of processes using 0.0 CPU and > very little memory. > > Where is the "load" coming from? I am not sure where to look.
fairly high in the search results for "openbsd load average" on a popular search engine you will find this undeadly.org article that has a bit of discussion as well as useful pointers: http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20090715034920&mode=expanded - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
