> True, if you happen to know that. When Joe Hypehype decides he wants
> unix powah on his PC and notices that Linux has a load average of 0.01
> and NetBSD has a load average of 10, which do you think he will choose?

So is the "load average" in Linux measuring something different?  Is
their load average really (100% - processor_idle_time) or something
like that?

-wolfgang
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