Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:24:45 -0600 From: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High Load cron patches - comments? Message-ID: <199901271724.LAA09108@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:03:26 PST." <199901271703.JAA40222@apollo.backplane.com>
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> >: >: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. I'm not sure how relevant this is--but the current load average decays *very* slowly as compared to other systems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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