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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 2000 21:28:05 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>
Cc:        Barry Pederson <bpederson@geocities.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Load average calculation?
Message-ID:  <v04220825b50ea0fefaba@[195.238.1.121]>
In-Reply-To: <38E8E960.2C5A8FD5@cvzoom.net>
References:  <200004030410.XAA75906@celery.dragondata.com>	 <v04220803b50e28f8c977@[194.78.233.215]>	 <38E8DEEF.7224C9A@geocities.com> <v0422081fb50e9396d772@[195.238.1.121]> <38E8E960.2C5A8FD5@cvzoom.net>

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At 2:56 PM -0400 2000/4/3, Donn Miller wrote:

>                                             For example, FreeBSD,
>  Linux, Solaris, SCO, etc. may all be running the exact same processes,
>  but will the load avg. always be consistent across those platforms?  I
>  think not.

	That's not a problem.  Other OSes really aren't our problem, and 
you would expect to have different configuration files on them anyway.

	What *may* be a potential problem is if we change the way we 
calculate load average on our own OS -- that we *are* responsible for.

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