Re: load average is 1 when no processes active; etc.

2000-09-11 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
Just for the record, i here have a system cvsupped and built FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Sep 9 13:46:17 CEST 2000 which has a constant load average of 1.00 and higher in uptime, top, and systat. The load is already 1.00 or above when the first shell prompt after a boot appears. I've

Re: load average is 1 when no processes active; etc.

2000-09-11 Thread Bruce Evans
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Valentin Nechayev wrote: `top -I' output: ==={ last pid: 811; load averages: 1.01, 0.97, 0.67up 0+00:16:12 23:26:26 This is because the idle process is always running (see "ps lax" outout). Perhaps the bug is that top doesn't show the idle

Re: load average is 1 when no processes active; etc.

2000-09-11 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Bruce Evans wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Valentin Nechayev wrote: `top -I' output: ==={ last pid: 811; load averages: 1.01, 0.97, 0.67up 0+00:16:12 23:26:26 This is because the idle process is always running (see "ps lax" outout). Perhaps the bug is that top

Re: load average is 1 when no processes active; etc.

2000-09-11 Thread Bruce Evans
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Bruce Evans wrote: Well, the kernel just doesn't treat it specially, so it gets counted in the load average. I'm not sure if the interrupt and other kernel processes are counted. Since they do useful work, they should be. The idle process

load average is 1 when no processes active; etc.

2000-09-10 Thread Valentin Nechayev
System in question is: root@nn:~##uname -mrs FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 root@nn:~##grep FreeBSD_version /usr/include/sys/param.h #undef __FreeBSD_version #define __FreeBSD_version 500012/* Master, propagated to newvers */ root@nn:~## cvsup was Sep 8, approximately at 18:00 GMT. `top -I'

Re: load average is 1 when no processes active; etc.

2000-09-10 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Valentin Nechayev wrote: `top -I' output: ==={ last pid: 811; load averages: 1.01, 0.97, 0.67up 0+00:16:12 23:26:26 This is because the idle process is always running (see "ps lax" outout). Perhaps the bug is that top doesn't show the idle process or other