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