Subject: Re: strange loads (again)
To: Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>
From: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/23/1999 15:39:14
> If nothing else, perhaps the load average calculation routine should be
> changed to divide the load by ten or do something else sneaky in order
> to make the load average look more ``normal'' compared to other
> operating systems.
> 

This is ridiculous.  The load average is the average number of processes
in the run queue.  There is no reason to change this, and if it was
it would be even more meaningless.

Mike


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