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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.  


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