Subject: Re: system-load updated only every 5 seconds???
To: Hubert Feyrer <Hubert.Feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@lagavulin.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/30/1995 02:39:05
> I have NetBSD 1.0 running on an Amiga (A2000 with 030@25MHz) and a PC (486@50)
> and i'm observing that the system load - either as reported by xload or uptime
> - is only updated every 5 seconds. (Of course xload is started with -update 1).
>
> Is there any reason for this behaviour?
Looking at the sources and the revision logs, just about the only
thing that _hasn't_ changed in sys/vm/vm_meter.c is the fact that
load averages are calculated once every 5 seconds...
As far as i can tell, it was that way in both Net/2 and in 4.4-Lite.
chris