From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 4 9:13: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wondermutt.net (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4186A37B806 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 09:12:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Received: from morgaine (morgaine.wondermutt.net [192.168.1.2]) by wondermutt.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA24348 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 12:13:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Message-Id: <4.1.20000304120821.0094f990@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 12:10:39 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: John Subject: Uptime/Load Averages Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all - In an ever-present quest to learn and understand, I was trying to learn more about "load averages" as shown in uptime. I read a quite extensive discussion in the archives over how the load average is *calculated*, but not exactly what it's saying. I guess I'm wondering: is it an absolute scale? Is the min 0 and the max 100 or some other number? Is a load avg of 0.1 good while a load avg of 1.0 is bad? Or is it not that cut and dry? What does knowing the load avg actually *tell* me. Thanks in advance, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message