Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:47:01 -0700 From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@flamingo.McKusick.COM> To: dg@root.com Cc: Chris Fedde <cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us>, junkmale@xtra.co.nz, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Uptime basics!!! Message-ID: <199907102047.NAA28130@flamingo.McKusick.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:03:07 PDT." <199907102303.QAA21179@implode.root.com>
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To: Chris Fedde <cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us> cc: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mckusick@mckusick.com Subject: Re: Uptime basics!!! In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 Jul 1999 01:49:26 MDT." <199907100749.BAA98281@fedde.littleton.co.us> From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:03:07 -0700 Sender: root@implode.root.com The BSD 4.3 book is wrong then. I just looked at the 4.3 sources and it also includes short term waits in the load. David is correct, the load average is computed from length of the run queue plus number of short term sleepers. The number is calculated once per second, and kept in 1, 5, and 15 minute averages. Kirk McKusick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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