From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 12 15:11: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pt-quorum.com (pt-quorum.com [209.10.167.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A957D37B424 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 15:10:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com) Received: from p163-237.netc.pt ([213.30.47.163]) by pt-quorum.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA04759 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 23:02:00 +0100 Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 23:12:30 +0100 (WEST) From: Nuno Teixeira X-X-Sender: Reply-To: Nuno Teixeira To: Subject: load averages - the meaning Message-ID: <20010512230357.Y1738-100000@gateway.bogus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello to all, I don't know if this is the right list to make my question. If it doesn't please forgive me. Well, the question is related to "load averages" that we see in "w", "top" and other system utilities. I have look at this programs man pages but I don't find the really meaning of it. In this momment I am doing a "make -j4 buildworld" in a X11 envirement (XFree86 / IceWM) on my Cyrix 200 and the load averages are about 4.88. What the limits of load averages and what the danger values and in what that this values are based. Thanks very much, - -- Nuno Teixeira Dir. Técnico pt-quorum.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iQA/AwUBOv21Vo8HcgpjoE/HEQKg0wCfYYTGnkEqRHWza6Gsl4WtEJfQ85kAoPNm uCw8wXq0sEQ1ZXfgOS/hrWKg =pmyF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message