Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 12:10:39 -0500 From: John <papalia@udel.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Uptime/Load Averages Message-ID: <4.1.20000304120821.0094f990@mail.udel.edu>
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Hi all - In an ever-present quest to learn and understand, I was trying to learn more about "load averages" as shown in uptime. I read a quite extensive discussion in the archives over how the load average is *calculated*, but not exactly what it's saying. I guess I'm wondering: is it an absolute scale? Is the min 0 and the max 100 or some other number? Is a load avg of 0.1 good while a load avg of 1.0 is bad? Or is it not that cut and dry? What does knowing the load avg actually *tell* me. Thanks in advance, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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