Load Avarage graph pattern

[Rahul Dhesi]

In <14081 at dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek at elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:

>The load average is computed by iterations of the formula:
>				 -1/k		   -1/k
>	average  =  average     e      +   n (1 - e    )
>	       t	   t-1

Just to give credit where it is apparently due, we should note that the
concept of an exponentially-decaying measure of the number of jobs in
the ready queue was probably invented in the TENEX operating system,
which ran on DECsystem-10 machines.  BSD seems to have borrowed the
idea from there and given it a life of its own.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi at cirrus.COM>
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