Re: about system load

[Will Backman <whb_(_at_)_ceimaine_(_dot_)_org>]

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 10:10 -0700, Jon Drews wrote:
> This may be of help:
> From: Installing and Operating 4.4BSD UNIX 
> 
> 6.5.  Monitoring system performance   
> http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/smm/01.setup/paper-6.html#section84
> 
> Also see man systat.
> 
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:39:45 +0200, Mihai IACOB <mihai_(_dot_)_ct_(_at_)_forte_(_dot_)_ro> wrote:
> > Hello!
> > I have a rather dumb question, but I never saw it answered. So, what
> > does system load mean? How is it measured and what does that number mean?
Well, source of systat says....
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/systat/main.c?
rev=1.30&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup