On Iau, 2005-01-27 at 10:09, Rob van der Heij wrote: > >From what I understand uptime reports the average number of processes > inside this single Linux guest competing for CPU resources. Some of > these processes come from interaction with end-users or requests via > the network. If there is heavy competition for the CPU on z/VM level > then these processes in Linux will take longer to complete, so you > would see more processes queue up inside Linux as well (provided at > least some work does get done in Linux to start those processes in the > first place).
Its a decaying average of the number of processes wanting the processor at the sample time along with those in "D" state which normally indicates an I/O wait. Its essentially an attempt to come up with one number that defines "busy-ness" There are better broken down stats available via vmstat, top etc but uptime does the job it was intended to do - it gives you a quick glance load assessment. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390