Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 13:11:59 -0500 From: Barry Pederson <bpederson@geocities.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load average calculation? Message-ID: <38E8DEEF.7224C9A@geocities.com> References: <200004030410.XAA75906@celery.dragondata.com> <v04220803b50e28f8c977@[194.78.233.215]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: > > 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. 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)? Barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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