From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 13 7:13:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [66.31.234.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D59137B41C for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 07:13:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by thehousleys.net (8.11.6/8.11.2) id fBDFDBo19531; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:13:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@Thehousleys.net) Received: from Thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.24]) (authenticated) by thehousleys.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBDFD9a19523; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:13:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@Thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <3C18C585.61793475@Thehousleys.net> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:13:09 -0500 From: James Housley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Holtor Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load Averages References: <20011213145127.6476.qmail@web11604.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Holtor wrote: > > Hello, > > Was the way load averages are calcuated changed in > Freebsd 4.4? I had one server running 4.3 with loads > between 1.5 - 2.0 all the time. After upgrading to > 4.4-stable friday dec 7th load averages on this server > are now rarely every above 0.10 which is a very > signifigan change. That computer is running all the > same things before and after the upgrade. > > Would that polling code removed on 7th, but included > in my upgrade, have something to do with this? Its all > i can think of. > There were some changes committed to -CURRENT that put a slight variation in the time the samples were taken to avoid always sampling while repative system task were running and creating a false high load. I am not sure if they have been MFC'd yet, but they might have. Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net jhousley@SimTel.Net http://www.SimTel.Net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "...there's no idea that's so good you can't ruin it with a few well-placed idiots." -- Charles Spickman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message