Re: Load over 1000

From: David Schultz <das_at_FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:35:18 -0500
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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