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From: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Subject: Re: Load average 1.0 on idle machine
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 02:08:13 -0400
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On May 14, 2006, at 9:45 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> ....   For now, consider
> the load avergage value bogus :)

It's not bogus :-)  If you happen to schedule periodic
tasks that are sampled with load average computes,
or sleep them "uninterrupible", they are counted in
the load average.


	-- Dan