On Tue Nov 23 1999 at 14:21:13 -0800, Mike Hogsett wrote:

> The load average is fairly meaningless.  It is simply the average
> number of processes in the run queue.

True, if you happen to know that. When Joe Hypehype decides he wants
unix powah on his PC and notices that Linux has a load average of 0.01
and NetBSD has a load average of 10, which do you think he will choose?

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