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From: Harrison Grundy <astrodog@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: kern/92023: [kernel] 'options DEVICE_POLLING' makes loadavg
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The following reply was made to PR kern/92023; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Harrison Grundy <astrodog@gmail.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,  Joerg.Lehners@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE
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Subject: Re: kern/92023: [kernel] 'options DEVICE_POLLING' makes loadavg wrong
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:38:44 -0500

 This would appear to be unavoidable with polling, because of what the 
 load average represents. Since it only shows the number of things 
 waiting to run (or, number of things on the run queue),  polling would 
 be expected to cause this behavior.