Re: Load averages reported by screen on HP-UX 11.11

[Micah Cowan]

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Paul Ackersviller wrote:
> I've recently started displaying load averages in screen's harstatus line,
> and notice something strange on one particular system.  The numbers are
> approximately four times the ones shown by the HP-UX uptime program.
> 
> Coincidentally, or perhaps not, the box has four CPUs.  Could it be that
> a division by cpu-count is being missed by screen on this OS?

On Unix systems I'm familiar with, the "uptime" command isn't _supposed_
to normalize for number of CPUs; at least, my uptime's manpage says:
"...so a load  average  of 1 means a single CPU system is loaded all the
time while on a 4 CPU system it means it was idle 75% of the time."

OTOH, screen appears to have seven different implementations for its
GetLoadav function; it's entirely possible the wrong one was chosen for
that build, or that the one that was chosen had some problems.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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