On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:33:01PM -0500, DICKENS,CARY (HP-Loveland,ex2) wrote: > I understand how to read /proc/loadavg. What does it mean? > How is loadavg calculated using avenrun? > What is avenrun and how is it being set? > > Sorry to ask such simplistic questions, but we all start somewhere. /me digs in his outbox... Yeah, found it. I explained it almost a year ago on this list. See: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2001-04/msg00007.html Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/