SUMMARY: Unreliable load average

From: Paul.Casteels <casteels_at_uia.ua.ac.be>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 09:22:56 +0200 (MET DST)

Thanks to the following people for their responses:

"Eric Z. Ayers" <eric_at_compgen.com>
Michel-Ange CAMHI <camhi_at_eclia2.ec-lille.fr>
"Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-881-0646" <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
Jim Belonis <belonis_at_dirac.phys.washington.edu>
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Boddy Bill NTSE <Bill.Boddy_at_nts.hl.siemens.de>

While the typical load on our system did not change after we have upgraded
to V4.0, the load averages reported by top and w jumped up.
It turns out that the way this load is calculated is not very clear,
possibly dependant on the OS version and could be influenced by newer
applications that became multi-threaded.

Paul Casteels
Received on Mon Sep 15 1997 - 09:35:35 NZST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed Nov 08 2023 - 11:53:36 NZDT