From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 25 9:13:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A1DD37B719 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 09:13:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14hE4j-000OpO-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:13:09 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2PHD4X31740 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:13:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:13:04 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: interpreting 'load' statistics Message-ID: <20010325181304.A31661@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When you run 'w' or 'uptime', how can you interpret the load statistics? I always thought under 1 was okay. I read that somewhere but now I'm not so sure. jm -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org "It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here." --------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message