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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:56:12 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>, dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon)
Cc:        toasty@dragondata.com (Kevin Day), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Load average calculation?
Message-ID:  <v04220803b50e28f8c977@[194.78.233.215]>
In-Reply-To: <200004030410.XAA75906@celery.dragondata.com>
References:  <200004030410.XAA75906@celery.dragondata.com>

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At 11:10 PM -0500 2000/4/2, Kevin Day wrote:

>  It's probably more accurate, but from a PR standpoint it makes it "look"
>  like FreeBSD is choking under the load, when it really isn't. Or am I the
>  only one that even cares about this? :)

	It's also extremely confusing for Linux users/admins who are used 
to the system rolling over and dying if the load average ever gets 
over 2.0 (and panic'ing if the load average goes over 4.0), and who 
see FreeBSD capable of surviving (if not necessarily performing very 
well) with load averages as high as 100 or even 200.

--
   These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
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