> aren't being serviced isn't a bug. The reason the load on systems with > many processes is typically low is that most processes are blocked on I/O > -- either waiting for it to complete, waing for a network packet, or > waiting for the user, so they're idle the rest of the time. The CPU sits > there waiting for the world to catch up... The load average has historically meant the number of processes either running/ready to run OR blocked by short term (disk I/O) wait. So the load average can be high even when the CPU isn't highly loaded. Back in the days of wcarchive.cdrom.com, it was not uncommon to see a load average of 60 while the CPU was 90% idle. -DG David G. Lawrence President Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com - (866) 399 8500 TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com - (888) 346 7175 The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Pave the road of life with opportunities.Received on Mon Feb 21 2005 - 20:08:36 UTC
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