Re: Workaround for wrapping loadaverage

From: Con Kolivas
Date: Tue Nov 09 2004 - 16:52:59 EST


Herbert Poetzl wrote:
but I agree that a higher resolution would be a good
idea ... also doing the calculation when the number
of running/uninterruptible processes has changed would
be a good idea ...

This could get very expensive. A modern cpu can do about 700,000 context switches per second of a real task with the current linux kernel so I'd suggest not doing this.

Cheers,
Con

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