On 24.11.99, 00:30:28, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Tue Nov 23 1999 at 14:21:13 -0800, Mike Hogsett wrote:
> 
> > The load average is fairly meaningless.  It is simply the average
> > number of processes in the run queue.
> 
> 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?

I did not follow all of earlier messages, but when my NetBSD boxen do
_nothing_, then their load is <0.01, just like on Linux.

What disturbs me more is that Linux top uses up several % CPU time and
has a very strange idea of what processes not to display in
"idle-off-mode"  and very bad user interaction. NetBSD top takes up
<0.1%, is very responsive and very accurate.

> 
> -- 
>   "Never underestimate the power of the Lite side of the \Source/"
>  Antti Kantee   /       NetBSD        \  1973 <- draken   \    / o

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Bernd Sieker

Unix, the solution to the W2k problem.