Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Kari E. Hurtta" <> | Subject | [OFF] Load avarage (Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue) | Date | Sat, 11 Nov 2000 10:23:58 +0200 (EET) |
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Claus Assmann: > Why does Linux report a LA of 10 if there are only two processes > running?
[This goes out of subject]
I have learned that load avarage means
"Processes on run queue" + "process waiting disk (or short-term) I/O"
That was before Linux times.
I have seen a workstation go to show load-average 100. That happened when NFS-server (or network) died. These workstations were diskless, so all processes ended to waiting of "disk" I/O.
These were Sun's diskless workstation models.
So it is not new that load average includes something else than processes waiting for CPU.
/ Kari Hurtta
(That was on Computer Science department of University of Helsinki.)
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