The following reply was made to PR port-sparc/34585; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andreas Wiese <andreas.wiese@instandbesetzt.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-sparc/34585: Weird behaviour of BLINK option
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:59:54 +0200

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 Lubomir Sedlacik dixit:
 > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:35:00PM +0000, Andreas Wiese wrote:
 > > But IMHO the behaviour isn't very intuitive.  Wouldn't it be better
 > > instead of making the load average equivalent to the LED's blink
 > > cycle, making it the blink frequency, i.e. higher load leads to a
 > > higher rate?
 >=20
 > no, that just doesn't scale well (and is not visibly measurable) for
 > higher loads.
 [snip...]
 
 And what about making it a sysctl variable so one can choose?  Or at
 least a kernel option? =20
 
 I think for me it would be easier to see that the load is high with the
 second behaviour.
 
 HAND & LG -- aw
 np: Archive (Lights) -- 06. Lights
 --=20
 
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