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Uploaded by on Apr 27, 2011

http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/06/24/load-average-video/

Brendan Gregg, author of the DTrace book, talks about the 1, 5 and 15 minute load averages as reported by tools such as uptime and prstat, and then explains in details how they work on Solaris-based Operating Systems including SmartOS, and reveals why they aren't really 1, 5 and 15 minute averages.

For more Brendan videos, start here: http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2010/10/25/new-videos/

Brendan's blog: http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/

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  • I'm all verklempt... one minute load average is neither one minute, nor an average... discuss amongst yourselves...

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