On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:19:15PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > Paul Ackersviller wrote: > > I've recently started displaying load averages in screen's harstatus line, > > and notice something strange on one particular system. The numbers are > > approximately four times the ones shown by the HP-UX uptime program. > > > > Coincidentally, or perhaps not, the box has four CPUs. Could it be that > > a division by cpu-count is being missed by screen on this OS? > > On Unix systems I'm familiar with, the "uptime" command isn't _supposed_ > to normalize for number of CPUs; at least, my uptime's manpage says: > "...so a load average of 1 means a single CPU system is loaded all the > time while on a 4 CPU system it means it was idle 75% of the time."
That was only a wild guess, so I don't mind if it's wrong. The HP-UX man page for uptime has a lot less information than that, so it's hard to say that screen's numbers are necessarily wrong. > OTOH, screen appears to have seven different implementations for its > GetLoadav function; it's entirely possible the wrong one was chosen for > that build, or that the one that was chosen had some problems. >From what I see in loadav.c, the one used on the system in question is at the end, under the comment * The old fashion way: open kernel and read avenrun Nothing there looks too unusual... _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
