On Mon, Feb 21, 2005, David G. Lawrence wrote: > > No, disk I/O sleeps is not involved. > > > > The loadavg is the length of the runqueue. Any process sleeping, > > on network, disk or timer, is not counted towards the total. > > I said "historically". :-) > This was changed in FreeBSD a some years ago. Even further back in history, TENEX computed the load average based on runnable jobs. :-P See footnote 1 of RFC 546.Received on Mon Feb 21 2005 - 21:35:29 UTC
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