On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:18:01AM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote: > >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Colin> The load average refers to the average number of processes > Colin> that are runnable or in uninterruptible sleep. The latter > Colin> usually indicates I/O. > > I did not know that. still, processes in uninterruptible sleep are > certainly waiting for short-term I/O, e.g. from a disk, correct? 50 > webservers are more likely to be blocked on socket reads and/or > accepts, which would take them off the run queue.
Indeed. You might be very unlucky, but that's about it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
