2009/5/24 Wojciech Puchar <woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>: >> From the glossary (p. 630) of _The_Design_and_Implementation_of_the >> _FreeBSD_Operating_System_ by McKusick and Neville-Neil: >> >> load average A measure of CPU load on the system. The load >> average >> in FreeBSD is an average of the number of processes ready >> to >> run or waiting for short-term events such as disk I/O to >> complete, as sampled once per second over the previous one- >> minute interval of system operation. >> > so this glossary should be fixed because it's nonsense. > > first - says that it's measure of CPU load > then - "or waiting for short-term events such as disk I/O" - which is NOT > measure of CPU load. >
Er, what? Of course it is! Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
