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On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 13:37 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Tom Sightler wrote:
>
> > Well, I'm pretty confident that load under HP-UX and under Linux were at
> > least originally the same. Basically, load the average number of
> > processes in the runqueue during the given intervals of time. I'm
> > pretty sure both HP-UX and Linux use this same basic definition.
>
> This is not the definition Linux uses.
>
> In Linux, the load average is the average number of
> processes in the runqueue PLUS the average number of
> processes waiting on disk IO.
Just an oversight. Further in the email I did note that processes in
'D' state count toward load average, I just didn't make that completely
clear in the paragraph above. My apologies.
Later,
Tom
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