Re: load average is 1 when no processes active; etc.

2000-09-11 Thread Bruce Evans
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Bruce Evans wrote: > > Well, the kernel just doesn't treat it specially, so it gets counted in the > > load average. I'm not sure if the interrupt and other kernel processes > > are counted. Since they do useful work, they should be. The idle process

Re: load average is 1 when no processes active; etc.

2000-09-11 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Bruce Evans wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > > > > > `top -I' output: > > > > > > > > ==={ > > > > last pid: 811; load averages: 1.01, 0.97, 0.67up 0+00:16:12 23:26:26 > > > > > > This is because the idle process is always running (see "ps lax" outout). > > > Pe

Re: load average is 1 when no processes active; etc.

2000-09-11 Thread Bruce Evans
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > > > `top -I' output: > > > > > > ==={ > > > last pid: 811; load averages: 1.01, 0.97, 0.67up 0+00:16:12 23:26:26 > > > > This is because the idle process is always running (see "ps lax" outout). > > Perhaps the bug is that top doesn't s

Re: load average is 1 when no processes active; etc.

2000-09-11 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Hello Bruce Evans! Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 03:09:02, bde wrote about "Re: load average is 1 when no processes active; etc.": > > `top -I' output: > > > > ==={ > > last pid: 811; load averages: 1.01, 0.97, 0.67up 0+00:16:12 23:26:26 > &g

Re: load average is 1 when no processes active; etc.

2000-09-11 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
Just for the record, i here have a system cvsupped and built FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Sep 9 13:46:17 CEST 2000 which has a constant load average of 1.00 and higher in uptime, top, and systat. The load is already 1.00 or above when the first shell prompt after a boot appears. I've al

Re: load average is 1 when no processes active; etc.

2000-09-10 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > `top -I' output: > > ==={ > last pid: 811; load averages: 1.01, 0.97, 0.67up 0+00:16:12 23:26:26 This is because the idle process is always running (see "ps lax" outout). Perhaps the bug is that top doesn't show the idle process or othe

load average is 1 when no processes active; etc.

2000-09-10 Thread Valentin Nechayev
System in question is: root@nn:~##uname -mrs FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 root@nn:~##grep FreeBSD_version /usr/include/sys/param.h #undef __FreeBSD_version #define __FreeBSD_version 500012/* Master, propagated to newvers */ root@nn:~## cvsup was Sep 8, approximately at 18:00 GMT. `top -I' o