From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 16:11:43 2014 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C489B84D for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 16:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oi0-f52.google.com (mail-oi0-f52.google.com [209.85.218.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C11F7BD for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 16:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oi0-f52.google.com with SMTP id a3so2637308oib.11 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 09:11:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=g3G2vj/xduf+Q3UAN+LhG8Tu8VpC1VZGd/5npasbbZs=; b=jyCwAg769Axw41mM4moXZwfmN5lg+P/+VDathUaoVjTDEstCr/3u3ofkIqusHQEHNQ 2ATDUTqnkxoZdKiITUr0SX0Fu+w96bHJSMcsm9ZzWBJOa5D8Qa6Pjdm003HwX8degKLC OQjlsdmToLlvYsH1U/auUy3Q6hKF/Z8X3mC2kw+Hl06T+jwvr4xM/VvH8GR840A4QCed TjU/N2ElnAXmdaZMSebg9oewPCEmvVKUL/43EbITXJ+meHr2H6pbFdzb+qsI0hVmtVr+ HwvwqWeZhPHBFG8SIcWFSZ3xSZEYXBj0N5fWz0NjTRnpKnd40dGrmwo89/iAmYNKUNVj MRvA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlKoEWkRXTuj2xtpgvtWVnl3YlaXRoMhojFFjgoZZ7JwpD2G4kccRhqoporQqVxm2T/3xKj MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.120.10 with SMTP id ky10mr1056938obb.68.1413733484889; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 08:44:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.60.219.33 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 08:44:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.60.219.33 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 08:44:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20141019203658.M56328@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <mailman.65.1413633601.70420.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20141019203658.M56328@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 08:44:44 -0700 Message-ID: <CAHu1Y73YvGS0sZzHUtZYOw0NeaqKu1PFt86xyXzPmN5OmWZShA@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: 9.3 Process Averages From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 16:11:43 -0000 Is device polling enabled? The load average is a global number of runnable-but-waiting processes, but you should divide by the number of cores to get something more intuitively meaningful