On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, jmc wrote:
--- Gabri Mate [Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:58:15PM +0100]: ---
Hey there!
I have a Compaq DL580 G1 with 4x700Mhz PIII, 2GB RAM, 2x36GB U320 SCSI
on a HP SmartArray 5300 with 64MB BBU.
It's a general purpose 'hobby' server. The average concurrent
i believe that Theo and many of the devs have said many times that the
load average means nothing. here's a reference to one such thread:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2008/11/8/4041294
Perhaps the man page of w(1) should be changed. Currently it states:
The load average numbers give the number of jobs in the run
queue averaged over 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
which is rather inaccurate or wrong. I suggest the patch below. Please
correct my English if necessary.
Regards,
David
Index: src/usr.bin/w/w.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/w/w.1,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -p -r1.18 w.1
--- src/usr.bin/w/w.1 31 May 2007 19:20:19 -0000 1.18
+++ src/usr.bin/w/w.1 13 Mar 2009 13:10:56 -0000
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ The first line displays the current time
been running, the number of users logged into the system, and the load
averages.
The load average numbers give the number of jobs in the run queue averaged
-over 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
+over past 1, 5 and 15 minutes. Because of the sampling method and
+algorithms used to obtain these numbers, they are often inaccurate.
.Pp
The fields output are the user's login name, the name of the terminal the
user is on, the host from which the user is logged in, the time the user
