Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:51:38 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue |
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[ ... named redacted by request ... ] wrote: > > > Well, here's what the sendmail folks **REAL** opinion of Linux is and > > the way load average is calculated (senders name removed) > > > > [... sendmail person ...] > > > >> Ok, here's my blunt answer: Linux sucks. Why does it have a load > >> average of 10 if there are two processes running? Let's check the > >> man page: > >> > >> and the three load averages for the system. The load > >> averages are the average number of process ready to > >> run during the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. This line > >> is just like the output of uptime(1). > >> > >> So: Linux load average on these systems is broken. > > If that is _our_ man page, it is broken. (well, old) Otherwise, > this is just a case of not mindlessly obeying the BSD "standard". > > Linux 2.4.xx includes some blocked processes in the load average > calculation. This is because the BSD load average calculation > could give a load of 0.0 when the system is severely overloaded > by IO. I think only uninterruptable processes got added in. > > Maybe this isn't the best solution... there could have been > a second load average for IO maybe. > > Feel free to forward this to the sendmail people, to the BSD people > in case they'd like to "standardize" the new calculation, or to the > linux-kernel mailing list for discussion -- w/o my name please.
Forwarded at the request of a tier 1 Linux person after redacting their name.
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