Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:59:21 -0600 From: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High Load cron patches - comments? Message-ID: <199901271759.LAA09274@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:24:45 CST."
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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. > Ugh.. Exmh has terrible dialog boxes--I was not quite finished. Anyways, what I wanted to say was more about the %CPU usage than the load--although the load seems to decay slowly as well. It doesn't matter too much, although in the case of the %CPU usage it seems to mask the current usage with the delay--it would be nice to have a more direct correlation. Perhaps entirely decaying over only a few seconds or so. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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