Load over 1000

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20050221210834.GB87259 at opteron.dglawrence.com>, "David G. Lawrence"
 writes:
>> aren't being serviced isn't a bug.  The reason the load on systems with
>> many processes is typically low is that most processes are blocked on I/O
>> -- either waiting for it to complete, waing for a network packet, or
>> waiting for the user, so they're idle the rest of the time.  The CPU sits
>> there waiting for the world to catch up...
>
>   The load average has historically meant the number of processes either
>running/ready to run OR blocked by short term (disk I/O) wait. 

No, disk I/O sleeps is not involved.

The loadavg is the length of the runqueue.  Any process sleeping,
on network, disk or timer, is not counted towards the total.

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