From owner-cvs-all Fri Sep 15 19:15:27 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from tinker.exit.com (exit-gw.power.net [207.151.46.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8148F37B422; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:15:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8G2FM100810; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:15:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8G2FtA15397; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:15:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200009160215.e8G2FtA15397@realtime.exit.com> 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 In-Reply-To: <98695.969066547@winston.osd.bsdi.com> from Jordan Hubbard at "Sep 15, 2000 06:09:07 pm" To: Jordan Hubbard Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:15:55 -0700 (PDT) Cc: John Baldwin , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: frank@exit.com Organization: Exit Consulting X-Copyright0: Copyright 2000 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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