Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:15:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_idle.c src/sys/vm vm_meter.c src/sys/i386/isa ithread.c src/sys/sys proc.h Message-ID: <200009160215.e8G2FtA15397@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <98695.969066547@winston.osd.bsdi.com> from Jordan Hubbard at "Sep 15, 2000 06:09:07 pm"
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Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Yet another reason why the concept of a "load average" simply bites to > an increasing degree with any halfway rational OS, something Unix > hasn't always been exactly on the money with. I don't know, I feel that it's a fairly useful metric, as long as one keeps in mind exactly what it _is_. And, of course, what it isn't. "Number of processes runnable" makes a certain amount of sense. Just don't make any important decisions based on it. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://store.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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