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From: mansfiel@sapphire.sdr.slb.COM (Niall Mansfield)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: is xload insane?
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Date: 29 Dec 88 15:54:00 GMT
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What does xload's output mean?  Is the histogram printed showing load as a
percentage, or what?

If as a percentage, then my understanding from the xload manpage is that
xload will shown the appropriate no. of horizontal lines in the window to
accomodate the current value.

But no matter how heavily loaded my machine is, the load average never
exceeds three percent (yes 3%!).  I hacked out the code from the widget,
and indeed printing the value ( *loadavg = (double)temp/FSCALE; ) I see it
varies between about 2.98 and 2.3.

(X11R3, Sun 3/50, SunOS 3.4 and 4.0)