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Date:      Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:16:32 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@designaproduct.biz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: interpreting uptime output
Message-ID:  <51F33B1D-5605-4D98-92E1-37575DF596AE@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <460C013D.8090002@designaproduct.biz>
References:  <460BFEC1.2060901@designaproduct.biz> <BC16DDED-5269-4181-9AF1-60A834721D72@mac.com> <460C013D.8090002@designaproduct.biz>

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On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
>> A job is a runnable process.  The run queue is a list containing  
>> the processes which are runnable at a particular time.  Lower  
>> numbers indicate lower CPU load.  From "man getloadavg":
>
> Hmm. Somebody could modify the man page of uptime and add a  
> reference to getloadavg. Do you think this would be a good  
> improvement?

Sure:

--- src/usr.bin/w/uptime.1_orig       Thu Mar 29 14:15:10 2007
+++ src/usr.bin/w/uptime.1    Thu Mar 29 14:15:32 2007
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
system name list
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr getloadavg 3 ,
.Xr w 1
.Sh HISTORY
The

> By the way, thank you for the information. Since I have two  
> processors now I know that I do not need to worry below 2.0. :-)

You're welcome...

-- 
-Chuck




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