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To: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>
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Subject: Re: Load Averages 
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If memory serves me right, James Housley wrote:

> 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.

The load average jitter changes were MFC-ed, as documented in the
4.4-STABLE release notes.

Bruce.



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