Re: /proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps

[John Summerfield]

Edvard Majakari wrote:
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
 

As such, load averages below 1 mean system doesn't have any processes
(except perhaps the one being run) waiting to be served.

     

I believe it includes the one running.
.96 is very far from idle.
   

Yes, that's why I put the "(except perhaps the one being run)" part. Sorry
for the misleading statement. Shouldn't write stuff before actually waking
up..
 

Some twenty years ago, I was on a communications course,and one of the 
things I learned then and still recall as that the shopper being served 
is in the queue.

I learned things about queues then that supermarkets still get wrong:-((
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