Author: Dan Egli Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] smtp_load_reserve?
Tony Finch wrote:
>Nico Erfurth <masta@???> wrote:
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>>On 3 May 2003, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
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>>>But in what /units/ is "load"?
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>>IIRC it's "How many processes fight for CPU-ressources".
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>Many systems also count processes that are waiting for disk towards
>the load average.
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I don't know on other O.S.'s but on Linux, a unit in the load average is
the "Average number of processes that are waiting for access to the
CPU". It's sampled in (if memory serves) 15 second increments, and then
averaged across one, five, and twenty minutes.
