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Date:      Mon, 01 Dec 1997 00:29:37 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>, Justen Stepka <jstepka@chaos.winternet.com>, FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CPU Load 
Message-ID:  <199712010829.AAA02884@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Nov 1997 23:14:34 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971130230820.26183A-100000@shell.uniserve.com> 

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>On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Mattias Pantzare wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Justen Stepka wrote:
>> 
>> > Recently I added memory to my NFS server (dx4-100 now w/ 32 megs of RAM),
>> > when I did this the overall system preformance increased dramiticly. The
>> > problem that I noticed was that when using NFS/NIS the CPU load climbs to
>> > about 4.0+, is there a special reason that this might be happening?
>> 
>> The load value is not CPU load. It is the average number of processes
>> ready to run or waiting for disk I/O to complete.
>
>  No, it is the average number of processes that are ready-to-run.
>Processes waiting for disk io (or any io) are not ready to run.

   Mattias Pantzare is correct. The load average is the number of runnable
processes plus the number of processes in a short-term (disk) wait. It's
meant to indicate the overall effect on interactive users, not necessarily
just the use of the CPU.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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