Re: Load average calculation?

[Brad Knowles]

At 2:56 PM -0400 2000/4/3, Donn Miller wrote:

>                                             For example, FreeBSD,
>  Linux, Solaris, SCO, etc. may all be running the exact same processes,
>  but will the load avg. always be consistent across those platforms?  I
>  think not.

        That's not a problem.  Other OSes really aren't our problem, and 
you would expect to have different configuration files on them anyway.

        What *may* be a potential problem is if we change the way we 
calculate load average on our own OS -- that we *are* responsible for.

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