On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Rikky Taylor wrote:
I am a little puzzled by how openbsd calculated load avaerage.
I have a server running 4.9 i386 that should be doing very little indeed yet
has a consistent load average of 0.6-0.9
Other similar servers have consisten load averages of 0.05-0.1
when i do a "ps aux" it shows a small number of processes using 0.0 CPU and
very little memory.
Where is the "load" coming from? I am not sure where to look.
There are also kernel processes which some other OS's do not include in
load average calculation. It's a different quantity.
For more detailed explanation read the article below or try to search a
mailing list archive.
http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20090715034920&mode=expanded
Nick, this is probably the single most frequently asked question... :-)
Regards,
David
