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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



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