[Gllug] loadavg (Was Re: [Gllug] Biitorrent for a dummy)

[Tethys]

"Russell Howe" writes:

>Doesn't the kernel include running tasks in that calculation, so
>that the perfectly loaded box would have a loadavg equal to the
>number of CPUs

Apparently so, as a quick grep of the kernel source shows. I'm sure
traditional Unix didn't include running tasks in the load average.
Can anyone confirm/deny this?

Tet
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