From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 3 9:38:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A01DF37B8B3 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 09:38:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA14574; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:36:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:36:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200004031636.MAA14574@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Kevin Day Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Load average calculation? In-Reply-To: <200004030410.XAA75906@celery.dragondata.com> References: <200004030349.UAA52843@apollo.backplane.com> <200004030410.XAA75906@celery.dragondata.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > 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. Actually, you have it backwards -- it makes it look as if FreeBSD is *not* choking under what appears to be a very heavy load.... -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message