On 22/09/2011 22:59, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote:
It is the number of task waiting in queue to be runbut IO is
important...if 2 processes are waiting for IO and it is completely
saturated they will be kept in queue so load will get higher
No, this is how Linux does the calculation. For
On 9/22/11 10:59 PM, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote:
On 09/22/2011 04:29 PM, Mark Felder wrote:
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:22:43 -0500, Henry M henr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on what the
load
average on top/uptime is actually displaying?
On 9/22/11 10:34 PM, Henry M wrote:
Thanks- That's what I thought it was. I'm trying to settle an argument at
work : )
http://xkcd.com/386/
Enjoy ;)
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:12:51 +0200
From: Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd.r-bonomi.com
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: load average with multi-core CPU's
On 9/22/11 10:59 PM, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote:
On 09/22
Hi all,
Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on what the load
average on top/uptime is actually displaying? Is the load the average amount
of processes waiting to execute on the server, or is it independent of CPU?
Am I correct with the below statements?
* Example 1: 1 CPU,
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:22:43 -0500, Henry M henr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on what the
load
average on top/uptime is actually displaying?
Load average is average number of processes in the run queue for the 1,
5, and 15 minute
Thanks- That's what I thought it was. I'm trying to settle an argument at
work : )
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote:
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:22:43 -0500, Henry M henr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on
On 09/22/2011 04:29 PM, Mark Felder wrote:
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:22:43 -0500, Henry M henr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on what the
load
average on top/uptime is actually displaying?
Load average is average number of processes in
