load average

[Pierre Abbat]

I just rebooted ('cause I recompiled the kernel the other day) and restarted 
KDE. When I do this on DFly and run top, the load average is about 1.5. When I 
do it on Linux, the load average shoots up to 11 or 20 or higher. In both 
OSes, the computer is slow to respond and makes lots of disk noises. I think 
what's happening is, processes that are waiting for the disk are counted as 
running in Linux but not in DFly. Is there a way to tell how busy the system 
is that includes disk usage?

Pierre
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