Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
Erik Mouw <[email protected]> wrote:
... except that any kernel < 2.6 didn't account tasks waiting for disk
IO. Load average has always been somewhat related to tasks contending
for CPU power.
Actually all Linux kernels accounted for diskwaits and others like BSD based
not. It is a very old linux oddness.
Well, sort of. The current numbers are counting kernel threads against
load average, and before there were kernel threads that clearly didn't
happen. So what you say is true, but it's only a part of the truth.
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-bill davidsen ([email protected])
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last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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