From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 27 7:38:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nwcst319.netaddress.usa.net (nwcst319.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.23.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F8A537B424 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 07:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6745 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Aug 2000 14:38:51 -0000 Message-ID: <20000827143851.6744.qmail@nwcst319.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.23.64 by nwcst319 for [192.176.216.26] via web-mailer(34FM.0700.4.03) on Sun Aug 27 14:38:50 GMT 2000 Date: 27 Aug 00 16:38:50 MET DST From: Johan Petersson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: CPU load vs. load average X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (34FM.0700.4.03) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi everyone, I recently discovered that when I send or receive a fax using HylaFAX and a class 1 modem the load average goes up to about 0.7 while the CPU stays at 99% idle. How can this be? I always thought that load average was a rough measurement of CPU load but I now guess it's not? Could someone please explain the difference to me? Regards Johan Petersson ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message