> Okay, they are not
> strange, they are perfectly logical, but a box with a load average of
> over 4 with it practically doing nothing just makes NetBSD look bad.

I don't understand why a load average of 4 is a problem here.

My netbsd (mac68k) machine at home currently shows:

   3:31PM  up 1 day, 18:34, 4 users, load averages: 0.28, 0.15, 0.17

as I would expect.  It *is* doing *essentially* nothing right now.
When I fire up a compile or something then the load average jumps 
to over 1.

My Linux (PIII 500) box at work is also doing almost nothing right
now.  It shows:

   3:34pm  up 4 days,  5:48,  5 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.26, 0.73

I was running netrape until a few minutes ago and the load was over 1 
until I killed it off (damn netscape bloatware)

Antti Kante wrote:
> 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?

Then let him choose Linux.  This is not the kind of person which 
will contribute to NetBSD anyway so who cares if he chooses NetBSD
or not.  


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