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From: hoyt@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sir Hoyt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: passwd hashing
Message-ID: <10719@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 26 Apr 89 12:56:39 GMT
References: <2470@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <67727@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Reply-To: hoyt@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sir Hoyt)
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In article <67727@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
>There's a reason for that. Dynix divides the load average by the number of
>CPUs you have. If uptime(1) displays 1.6, and you have four CPUs, then the
>load average is really 6.4.

	I think they do something else too.  I have done a

		while( 1 ) fork();

	on a Sequent, and the load never went above 3.4. Yet
	vmstat should a run queue of 99.  So one wounders what else
	they do to the load average.....

	Oh yes, the Sequent had 10 CPUs.

><csg>

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