[Orca-users] Re: Graph Question: Average # Processes in Run Queue

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Mon Nov 4 09:26:04 PST 2002


izsun wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> First off - a big thank you to Blair for putting out such a great
> tool as orca.

Thank you!

> 
> On to my question:
> in the graph entitled "Average # Processes in Run Queue",
> the vertial axis has units of 100m and 200m.  My question
> is what does the "m" represent ?

m => Milli, u => Micro, etc.  This comes from RRDtool.

> 
> I see sustained numbers in the range of 50-70m eventhough the system
> is pretty much idle ... with occasional spikes up to 160m !!??

So the range would be 0.05-0.07 with spikes up to 0.16.

Best,
Blair

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