Hi,
I couldn't find witch of the three possible value the -l option of the
cron refer to in the man page and look at the code in
/src/usr.sbin/cron/atrun.c that use the getloadavg(&la, 1) to get that
value, the first of 3 if I am not mistaken. I had to look at the man
page for getloadavg to know that as well.
So, am I correct to think that the load average in cronjob ONLY use the
1 minute average, always?
It 1 minute average is always assume by default every time load average
is used system wide?
May be if I may suggest to to have the man page changed from
-l load_avg
If the current load average is greater....
to
-l load_avg
If the current (1 minute) load average is greater....
That's fine if that's just me that didn't get it. I just thought that it
would be nice not to have to dig to find what I think it the right
answer assuming I find it correctly.?
I can send a diff if that's not stupid to do, but I really had to dig
this one up to know. Google and the man page didn't provide the answer
to me right away anyway, but the code did. (;>
I was hoping to have the possibility to use the 15 minutes average here
in cronjob. Not the end of the world and I can live without it. But I
didn't get the answer from the man page however in term of what the load
average was. I guess most likely it's always assume to be the case
system wide?
Could also be my English as if I was native, may be the "current load
average" always refer to the smallest of the three possible values that
are all current moving load average anyway.
Just a thought.
Thanks
Daniel
