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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 2000 20:31:03 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        Barry Pederson <bpederson@geocities.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Load average calculation?
Message-ID:  <v0422081fb50e9396d772@[195.238.1.121]>
In-Reply-To: <38E8DEEF.7224C9A@geocities.com>
References:  <200004030410.XAA75906@celery.dragondata.com> <v04220803b50e28f8c977@[194.78.233.215]> <38E8DEEF.7224C9A@geocities.com>

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At 1:11 PM -0500 2000/4/3, Barry Pederson wrote:

>  Won't this also goof up programs like Exim (an SMTP MTA), that have some
>  settings available for how to handle messages under various loads
>  (process now, queue for later, etc)?

	If there has been an actual change in how the load average is 
calculated, then any program that changes it's behaviour based on the 
load average may have problems.  This would certainly include SMTP 
MTAs such as sendmail, Exim, etc....

	However, more recent comments lead me to question whether there 
actually has been a change in the way load is calculated.

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