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Re:Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD by 5e92cb50239222b on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:03AM (#28945477)
Tangentially related: modern kernels have a much better metric (PSI, or pressure stall information)

https://lwn.net/Articles/759781/

https://lwn.net/Articles/775971/

Re:Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD by da_chicken on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:43PM (#28947189)
Well, that's still an aggregated value that someone decided to calculate based on what they thought would work best for what they're looking for. It's not necessarily more a correct definition of load, just one that is more appropriately actionable for the problems it's designed for.

In other words, PSI is "better" for some definition of "better".