From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 27 09:59:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA17165 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:59:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu (friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu [129.186.185.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA17159 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:59:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu) Received: from friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu (localhost.res.iastate.edu [127.0.0.1]) by friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA09274; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:59:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu) Message-Id: <199901271759.LAA09274@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 cc: Matthew Dillon , Wes Peters , Kevin Day , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High Load cron patches - comments? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:24:45 CST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:59:21 -0600 From: Chris Csanady 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. > >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