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 ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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