Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 00:56:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> To: wc.bulte@chello.nl Cc: toasty@dragondata.com (Kevin Day), dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Load average calculation? Message-ID: <200004030556.AAA76127@celery.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <20000403075130.B5528@yedi.wbnet> from "Wilko Bulte" at Apr 03, 2000 07:51:31 AM
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> > > I believe the load average was changed quite a while ago to reflect not
> > > only runnable processes but also processes stuck in disk-wait. It's
> > > a more accurate measure of load.
> >
> > Ahh, and since nearly everything is done on this system via NFS, I can
> > imagine that several things are waiting for NFS responses.
> >
> > It's probably more accurate, but from a PR standpoint it makes it "look"
> > like FreeBSD is choking under the load, when it really isn't. Or am I the
> > only one that even cares about this? :)
>
> What does the man page for 'w' say about it? At least the change should be
> reflected there I guess.
getloadavg(3)(which 'w' and 'uptime' use) says:
The getloadavg() function returns the number of processes in the system
run queue averaged over various periods of time.
The 'w' and 'uptime' manpages really don't mention anything relevant.
Kevin
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