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Re: [PLUG] high load average
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Don't know if Linux is the same as other Unixen, but under BSD the load
average is defined as the average length of the run queue. So you can
easily have load averages of 50 or more -- all that says is that you have 50
processes that are currently runnable (and competing for slices). I ran my
200MHz PPro up to 17 once playing with multithreaded make(1). Only time I
ever had my 2.0.36 kernal crash...
----- Original Message -----
From: "gabriel rosenkoetter" <gr@eclipsed.net>
> Load average measures requests for the processor, not processes
> actually getting swapped onto it.
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