ag@elgar.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski) (11/01/88)
First off, lemme see if I have the definition of `load adverage'
correct. The load adverage is the number of processes that receive
CPU time in a set time (one second?).
Now, avenrun is a variable in kmem that is incremented every time a
process is given some CPU time? The counter is reset every second?
Looking at avenrun, I see some pretty large numbers.
In code (loadst in Gnu Emacs) that I have seen, it divides avenrun by
400000 to produce the actual load adverage. When I am running Emacs
with a couple of processes and news is spooling, the load adverage can
get up to 200+. This doesn't seem reasonable to me.
The question: What is avenrun? How is it derived?
Pax, Keith
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