From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 27 09:03:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10018 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:03:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA10011 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:03:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id JAA40222; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:03:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:03:26 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199901271703.JAA40222@apollo.backplane.com> To: Wes Peters Cc: Kevin Day , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High Load cron patches - comments? References: <199901261853.MAA15095@home.dragondata.com> <36AE3981.C3F59FF1@softweyr.com> <199901262256.OAA22114@apollo.backplane.com> <36AF3733.E6DFEB9F@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :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. : :Wes Peters Softweyr LLC :http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com 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. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message