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From: jef@HELIOS.EE.LBL.GOV (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: is xload insane?
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Date: 29 Dec 88 22:38:52 GMT
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>Other meters are possible (and probably preferable).

Yes, I've always preferred xcpu, which shows the percentage of cpu time
being used.  No averaging is done.  It seems extremely silly to me that
xload graphs a one-minute average once per second...

Also, on some systems xload can actually cause the load average to oscillate
between N and N+1 with a period of a few minutes, as the once-a-second xload
process goes into and out of sync with the once-a-second kernel load average
computation.
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Jef