Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>]

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;
}

  Ralf
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