Load over 1000

[David Schultz]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005, David G. Lawrence wrote:
> > 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.
> 
>    I said "historically". :-)
>    This was changed in FreeBSD a some years ago.

Even further back in history, TENEX computed the load average
based on runnable jobs.  :-P  See footnote 1 of RFC 546.