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From: shani@GENIUS.TAU.AC.IL (Oren Shani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Load Avarage graph pattern
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Date: 5 Jun 91 08:08:06 GMT
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I think I know already what the reason is. It's simply because avaraging a stairs
function (in this case, the length of the ready queue), over a constant period,
gives a seemingly exponential pattern. Infact, this is simply a derive of a
geometrical series... This is quite easy to show... 

Geez, I didn't think I will get so much response to that :-)
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