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 FreeB
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Sep 23 03:15:37 2011
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:12:51 +0200
> From: Damien Fleuriot
> 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 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 ;)
___
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd
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 wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on what the
>>> load
>>> average on top/uptime is actually displaying?
>>
On 09/22/2011 04:29 PM, Mark Felder wrote:
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:22:43 -0500, Henry M 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
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 wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:22:43 -0500, Henry M wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>>
>> Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on what the load
>> average
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:22:43 -0500, Henry M 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 intervals. If yo
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,
