> > Greetings! I have a FreeBSD-4.5 box that is a specialized server box. It > > doesn't run any user processes and only runs a bunch of small, server > > efficient processes. > > > > I have an inconsistency that I am trying to explain. When I do a "w" command > > on the box, I see this: > > > > 7:31PM up 74 days, 39 mins, 1 user, load averages: 1.12, 0.94, 0.93 > > > > This says I have a load of 1.12 over the past minute, or, for every > > available CPU interval, I have 1.12 processes requesting the CPU. > > This last bit is where you go wrong. The 1.12 is just for the minute prior to > when you ran the command, it has no relation to any previous minutes. Just > cause it is 1.12 right now doesn't mean the average load for every minute is > 1.12.
But these numbers are over months...I have used an expect script to periodically poll the load and vmstat, and save them off to a file. My average load over a three month period is about 0.98, but the average CPU idle time over the same 3 month period is about 85% idle. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
