From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jun 27 11:39:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3758337C00E for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:39:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA09443; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:41:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:41:09 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Max Clark Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interpreting uptime In-Reply-To: <004001bfdfab$9c849700$950110ac@emindnfzmj9j9m> Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Max Clark wrote to freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG: > Okay- really basic question. How do you interpert the values that uptime > gives you? I know that the first value is current, five minutes, and fifteen > minutes. But what do the number values mean? At what point should I become > concerned with the machine? > > Maxwell Clark > GETLOADAVG(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual GETLOADAVG(3) NAME getloadavg - get system load averages SYNOPSIS #include _int getloadavg(double loadavg[], int nelem) DESCRIPTION The getloadavg() function returns the number of processes in the system run queue averaged over various periods of time. Up to nelem samples are retrieved and assigned to successive elements of loadavg[]. The system imposes a maximum of 3 samples, representing averages over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes, respectively. DIAGNOSTICS If the load average was unobtainable, -1 is returned; otherwise, the num- ber of samples actually retrieved is returned. SEE ALSO uptime(1), kvm_getloadavg(3), sysctl(3) HISTORY The getloadavg() function appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno. BSD June 4, 1993 1 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > -- Ryan Thompson Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message