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Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 14:58:31 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: bobyetman@att.net
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Subject: Re: Loadavg calculation
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011050746090.634-100000@juryrig.worldnet.att.net>; from bobyetman@att.net on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 07:55:40AM -0500
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On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 07:55:40AM -0500, bobyetman@att.net wrote:
> 
> We'd like to reduce that almost 50 second lag time.  Is it possible, in
> user-space, to duplicate the loadavg calculation period, say to a 15
> second load average, using the information in /proc?

You could simply recompile the kernel with a smaller LOAD_FREQ constant.
It defines how often the average  computation runs. The unit is jiffies,
which is 10ms on i386. 
It may break some other programs though.

-Andi
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