Re: High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3

[Gabor Gombas]

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:47:05PM +0100, Russell King wrote:

> Seems to me that somethings wrong somewhere.  Either that or the first
> load average number no longer represents the load over the past one
> minute.

... or just the load average statistics and the CPU usage statistics are
computed using different algorithms and they thus estimate different
things. At least the sampling frequency is surely different.

Gabor

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