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Article #823Re: passwd hashing
From: Sir Hoyt
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1989 12:56
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1989 12:56
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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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