Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
>
> On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, Donn Miller wrote:
>
> > I think we ought to re-examine the definition of load average. By
> > load, we mean an actual load on the cpu, and waiting processes aren't
> > really exerting a cpu load. So, by that reasoning I say waiting
> > processes don't count.
>
> I think you have an incorrect (incomplete) definition.
>
> Traditionally, the load was the number of processes WANTING to run.
> Tasks which are waiting for "user" I/O are excluded.
> However, tasks waiting to be swapped in should be counted.
Hmmm... I wonder how Linux computes load average? Although FreeBSD
has nothing to do with Linux et. al., it would be good, IMO, to
maintain some consistency with how those other unix variants determine
the load avg.
- Donn
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