From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 18:16:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB3D216A400 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:16:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B124A13C458 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:16:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay5.apple.com (relay5.apple.com [17.128.113.35]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2TIGXOn007399; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:16:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay5.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay5.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 1804129C008; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:16:33 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807123-af62dbb000005a91-00-460c02811dd5 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay5.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 0598530400D; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:16:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <460C013D.8090002@designaproduct.biz> References: <460BFEC1.2060901@designaproduct.biz> <460C013D.8090002@designaproduct.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <51F33B1D-5605-4D98-92E1-37575DF596AE@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:16:32 -0700 To: Laszlo Nagy X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interpreting uptime output X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:16:34 -0000 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