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<HR><H2>Re: load()</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sat Jan 21 14:17:46 1995
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From: brandon@smithfield.declab.usu.edu
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 95 12:15:42 -0700

I'm crossposting this to coldstuff, since it sortof has interest to that list
as well...
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Hmm, well, its installed, but be warned, it does have a _lot_ of overhead (and
it stall's the server while receiving the load).  For instance, a few checks
on load:

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;$sys.load();
=&gt; "1.04, 0.58, 0.02"
[ ticks: 8 seconds: 6 (1 per) milliseconds: 6202 ]
;$sys.load();
=&gt; "0.96, 0.57, 0.02"
[ ticks: 8 seconds: 1 (8 per) milliseconds: 1539 ]
;$sys.load();
=&gt; "0.88, 0.56, 0.01"
[ ticks: 8 seconds: 0 milliseconds: 422 ]
;$sys.load();
=&gt; "0.81, 0.55, 0.01"
[ ticks: 8 seconds: 1 (8 per) milliseconds: 1543 ]
;$sys.load();
=&gt; "0.75, 0.54, 0.00"
[ ticks: 8 seconds: 1 (8 per) milliseconds: 1519 ]
;$sys.load();
=&gt; "0.28, 0.43, 0.00"
[ ticks: 8 seconds: 1 (8 per) milliseconds: 1699 ]
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Anyway, as you can see it isn't exactly a fast thing (oh, and milliseconds are
not exactly milliseconds, I cannot figure out what increment of a second they
are.  The reason I chose the name millisecond is because the structure element
is millitm (aurgh, this is frustrating--no documentation)).

-Brandon (Lynx)-
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