Messages in this thread | | | From | mharris@ican ... | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:04:49 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: [Q] (possible offtopic) - /proc/loadavg |
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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Perry Harrington wrote:
> AFAIK, the load average (speaking in thread and OS terms) is the number of > processes marked 'ready to run' in the scheduler queue, that have been marked > that status for more than one iteration over the scheduler queue. This is > explained very well in "Building your own 32bit OS". I'd recommend this book > to anyone interested in OSes, it is a very good book, and discusess memory > management, scheduling, kernel architecture and such. However, it is a book > about a microkernel style architecture, and not a monolithic (Linux) style > kernel. It also focuses very heavily on how to implement message passing and > how to do it efficiently in an OS.
Well with the modularity of any of the 2.0.x kernels and especially the 2.1.x kernels "modulithic" would be a better description of linux than monolithic. ;o)
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