From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 22 23:22:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14888 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:22:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14746 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:21:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA12666; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:16:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:16:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: roger chen cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please do me a favor... :) In-Reply-To: <199803200158.BAA01535@roger.iecs.fcu.edu.tw> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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