Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 02:09:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Cc: wes@softweyr.com, toasty@home.dragondata.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High Load cron patches - comments? Message-ID: <199901290209.TAA10548@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199901271703.JAA40222@apollo.backplane.com> from "Matthew Dillon" at Jan 27, 99 09:03:26 am
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> :So this is why pmake drives our system load average up to 8-10 before > :dropping back down to the assigned limit of 5, huh? Maybe we should > :fix the load average computations as John suggested. > > There's nothing wrong with the load average computation, it's a 1, 5, > and 15 minute pseudo-average just as advertised. What's wrong are the > programs that try to use it to regulate themselves. An instantaneous load average is very easy to maintain and retrieve, using number of jobs in the ready-to-run state. This is how Solaris does load. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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