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From: xtdn@levels.sait.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ccpu
Message-ID: <16226.280f85ed@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 19 Apr 91 14:36:05 GMT
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Ray.Moody@Cray.Com writes:
> Ccpu is used compute a processes percent CPU utilization.  It is a
> constant traditionally set to exp(-1/20).  It is unusual in that it is
> one of the very few floating point numbers in the kernel.

What about the comp_t fields in struct acct?  They, while not floats,
are apparently floating point fields.

Or did you mean that ccpu is one of the few floating point constants in
the kernel?

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