Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!vector!chip
From: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: load average on Xenix (was lload on Xenix)
Message-ID: <266@vector.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 15 Jun 89 02:42:15 GMT
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Reply-To: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
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pcng@cad.unsw.oz (Po Cheung Ng (Andrew)) writes:
>There are couple of Xenix internels inside the kernel to handle
>load average and up time.

I was playing around with this in 2.3.1, and it appears that you have
something like:

	short avenrun[3];

in the kernel, and the load average values are these values divided
by 256.0.  I came upon 256 emperically ... is there any particular
reason or precedent for this magic cookie?  It isn't documented in
any <sys/*.h> file that I could find.
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Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337
"I wish you'd put that starvation box down and go to bed" - Albert Collins' Mom