Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 11 Nov 2000 02:44:40 +0100 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue |
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Jeff,
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:29:20PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey 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.
Or the documentation is b0rken? This is how the load figure is actually calculated:
/* * Nr of active tasks - counted in fixed-point numbers */ static unsigned long count_active_tasks(void) { struct task_struct *p; unsigned long nr = 0;
read_lock(&tasklist_lock); for_each_task(p) { if ((p->state == TASK_RUNNING || (p->state & TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE))) nr += FIXED_1; } read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); return nr; }
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