Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:16:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: roger chen <roger@roger.iecs.fcu.edu.tw> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please do me a favor... :) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980322231614.12642E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199803200158.BAA01535@roger.iecs.fcu.edu.tw>
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On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, roger chen wrote: > It's so glad to write this mail to you, and thank you for spending time > to read and answer my questions. > The commands "uptime" and "top" on FreeBSD both obtain three values from > the array "_averunnable" in the kernel, and then each divided by FSCALE(a > system constant.) right away as their "load average". One of my questions > is how those three values in the "_averunnable" be generated by FreeBSD > kernel. In other words, what factors does FreeBSD kernel depend on to decide > the term "load average"? Check the mail archives, i believe it's been explained. Http://www.freebsd.org/ Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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