Re: Back in Production mode Again...

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:03:58 -0300

lm@who.net (Larry McVoy) said:
> Wouldn't it be cool if Linux actually defined a "busy average"?
> Something that took into consideration CPU cycles, disk arms, and
> networks? Perhaps it needs to be be a weighted triple. How
> about

[snip]

You'd have to take something like the maximum of the three (if the CPU is
100% busy, and the network and disk 0% each, you shouldn't claim the machine
is 33% busy ;-)

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