From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 20:48:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 20:48:11 -0500 Received: from smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.4.60]:38815 "EHLO smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 20:48:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3A0CA547.E9259929@haque.net> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 20:47:51 -0500 From: "Mohammad A. Haque" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue In-Reply-To: <3A0C3F30.F5EB076E@timpanogas.org> <3A0C6B7C.110902B4@timpanogas.org> <3A0C6E01.EFA10590@timpanogas.org> <26054.973893835@euclid.cs.niu.edu> <8uhs7c$2hr$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20001111023521.D29352@bacchus.dhis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have this exact argument at work every so often. People coming in from an NT environment have difficulty understanding what it is/means and that it's not neccessarily bad when load gets above 1, etc, etc, etc. Ralf Baechle wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 02:18:20PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Numerically high load averages aren't inherently a bad thing. There > > isn't anything bad about a system with a loadavg of 20 if it does what > > it should in the time you'd expect. However, if your daemons start > > blocking because they assume this number means badness, than that is > > the problem, not the loadavg in itself. > > The problem seems to me that the load figure doesn't express what most > people seem to expect it to - CPU load. > > Ralf -- ===================================================================== Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ mhaque@haque.net "Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Project Lead Don't drink and derive." --Unknown http://wm.themes.org/ batmanppc@themes.org ===================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/