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From: etienne@accsys.UUCP (Stefan Hauser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Load Average
Message-ID: <411@accsys.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 23:26:54 GMT
References: <2910@netmbx.UUCP> <745@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Reply-To: etienne@accsys.UUCP (Stefan Hauser)
Organization: Another Chaotic Computer SYStem
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In article <745@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <2910@netmbx.UUCP> fischer@netmbx.UUCP (Axel Fischer) writes:
>
>| Is ist normal to have a load average of at least 1.00 ? At my company we have
>| a SUN 3/50 it displays almost 0 (around 0.10) when nothing happens.
>
>  Not on either of my systems... on a quiet system I do see all zeros
>from time to time. Sounds as though you have a hungry "idle daemon"
>running. Do you by any chance leave vpix running?

on my 386'er with SCO xenix 2.3.1, after booting. all shows 0 if i do nothing,
but after heavy load, it goes only back to 1 and next time there are a lot
of jobs, it stays by 2... seem like a little bug...or am i wrong?
(there are always the same processes running, if no one is on the system...
but the load average wont go back to 0...)

  etienne
(sorry for my bad english...but i never learned it...i do it...perhaps next
year...)

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