From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Joachim Breuer <jmbreuer@gmx.net>
Cc: Adam Goldstein <Whitewlf@Whitewlf.net>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Very High Load, kernel 2.4.18, apache/mysql
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:16:53 -0300 (BRT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0209261415570.1837-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3adm465l6.fsf@venus.fo.et.local>
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Joachim Breuer wrote:
> In the olden days (at least I learnt that definition for a system
> based on 3.x BSD), the "load average" is the number of runnable
> processes (i.e. those that could do work if they got a slice of CPU
> time) averaged over some period of time (1, 2, 5, 10 minutes).
> I don't know the concise definition in Linux's case either.
Extending your definition, the load average in Linux would be:
"the number of processes that could do work if they got a slice
of CPU time or had their data in RAM instead of being blocked
on disk"
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-26 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-24 23:27 Adam Goldstein
2002-09-25 0:59 ` Roger Larsson
2002-09-25 1:28 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-25 2:38 ` Adam Goldstein
2002-09-25 5:24 ` Simon Kirby
2002-09-25 6:56 ` Adam Goldstein
2002-09-25 7:20 ` Simon Kirby
2002-09-25 7:51 ` Paweł Krawczyk
2002-09-25 13:13 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-25 22:54 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2002-09-26 17:09 ` Joachim Breuer
2002-09-26 17:16 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2002-09-25 3:50 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-09-25 3:48 ` Bernd Eckenfels
[not found] <3D90FD7B.9080209@wanadoo.fr>
2002-09-25 1:12 ` Adam Goldstein
[not found] <0EBC45FCABFC95428EBFC3A51B368C9501AF4F@jessica.herefordshire.gov.uk>
2002-09-25 20:16 ` Adam Goldstein
2002-09-25 21:26 ` Roger Larsson
2002-09-26 3:03 ` Ernst Herzberg
2002-09-26 18:36 ` Marco Colombo
2002-09-26 19:27 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-26 20:02 ` Marco Colombo
2002-09-26 20:09 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-26 20:25 ` Ernst Herzberg
2002-09-27 8:52 ` Martin Brulisauer
2002-10-01 5:36 ` David Rees
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