Ahh... seems the culprit is softclock_thread added 2016/09/22
(kern/kern_timeout.c mpi@).
I guess next question is whether OpenBSD will live (and document)
this change (increase) in load average, or some sort of counter
measure will be taken in uvm_loadav() to suppress the extra bump
in the value?
Hi,
For a long time I was running an amd64 snapshot from 2016/03/30,
then I installed a snapshot from 2016/10/09 on four machines
(two laptops, a desktop and a 1U supermicro).
One apparent difference was that the load average on all four
machines idled at slightly above 1 (1.12, 1.18, ...), about
