On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:09:37 +0200, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:42:16AM +0200, Christoph Borsbach wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > first off: I know that the topic of "load" has been discussed numerous
> > times, and been a topic on undeadly [1]. I know that this number is not that
> > important.
> > 
> > However:
> > After upgrading 3 of my systems to 6.1 (from 6.0) I noticed the load average
> > (15min value) has gone up by roughly 1.0, both in the output of daily(8)
> > over some days now and when checking manually with w, top, or uptime.
> 
> Yes. If I understand correctly, this is because the kernel threads are
> now counted towards the load average.  An OpenBSD system at rest should
> now have a load average of about 1.

Thanks, that makes sense and explains it!

Christoph

> 
> Regards,
> Kusalananda

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