From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 3 13:28:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.cvzoom.net (ns.cvzoom.net [208.226.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2087537BEF0 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:27:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmmiller@cvzoom.net) Received: (qmail 10157 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2000 20:26:31 -0000 Received: from acs-63-90-88-170.zbzoom.net (HELO cvzoom.net) (63.90.88.170) by ns.cvzoom.net with SMTP; 3 Apr 2000 20:26:31 -0000 Message-ID: <38E8FE5B.CD2FD3E6@cvzoom.net> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 16:26:03 -0400 From: Donn Miller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Load average calculation? References: <200004030410.XAA75906@celery.dragondata.com> <38E8DEEF.7224C9A@geocities.com> <38E8E960.2C5A8FD5@cvzoom.net> <20000403221222.A2019@tony.dorf.wh.uni-dortmund.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick Mau wrote: > On all Unix-like systems I know, the load average is the average mumber > of processes running during a given time interval. I can't see what use > it may have to count load for _waiting_ processes. > > I/O load is not process load, if a process waits for I/O completion it does > not use up its timeslice. I think we ought to re-examine the definition of load average. By load, we mean an actual load on the cpu, and waiting processes aren't really exerting a cpu load. So, by that reasoning I say waiting processes don't count. - Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message