FYI, this person has been sending several Freenet support messages to me. ----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:18:19 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ignore my last message. Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a note, I'm going to stop emailing you after this for a while until you reply since I'd sure hate to get you hating me for emailing you so much all at once. Anyway, I just noticed freenet figures out the loadaverage NOT by the operating system, but by the amount of threads in use vs threads not in use. This means settings greater than 1 are useless, for obvious reasons. This also means that the configuration setting is misleading, confusing, and basically useless for a real world config. We (I most certaintly at least) cannot rely on a setting that doesn't actually do anything useful. I believe currently the only real way to reduce the amount of cpu used in a REAL way is to actually lower the amount of threads and the amount of connections to other servers that can be used. Please forward this to the list if you don't mind, and tell them to privately reply. Tim McGrath ----- End forwarded message ----- My understanding is that he's correct, in that Java does not actually use the "load average" figure of the (Unix) host environment. Remember that Java is a "portable" (*cough*) language, so it can't use anything Unix-specific, like load averages, that don't appear in Windows (or VMS or wristwatches or whatever). I guess the real question is why he expected anything different. ;-) -- Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers http://wooledge.org/~greg/ |
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