I found the following in my mail box:
<
From: root@localhost
Subject: DrakLog Mail Alert
X-Mailer: Mail::Mailer[v2.21] Net::SMTP[v3.11]
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 05:01:01 +0100 (BST)
Status: R

Load is huge: 3.58

Google doesn't recognise "draklog mail alert load is huge" as a search
target. Any ideas why/what?
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On Wed, 01 Sep 2021 11:34:35 -0400, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

I found the following in my mail box:
<
From: root@localhost
Subject: DrakLog Mail Alert
X-Mailer: Mail::Mailer[v2.21] Net::SMTP[v3.11]
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 05:01:01 +0100 (BST)
Status: R

Load is huge: 3.58

Google doesn't recognise "draklog mail alert load is huge" as a search target. Any ideas why/what?

https://www.howtogeek.com/194642/understanding-the-load-average-on-linux-and-other-unix-like-systems/

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On 9/1/2021 9:32 AM, David W. Hodgins wrote:

On Wed, 01 Sep 2021 11:34:35 -0400, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

I found the following in my mail box:
<
From: root@localhost
Subject: DrakLog Mail Alert
X-Mailer: Mail::Mailer[v2.21] Net::SMTP[v3.11]
Date: Wed,  1 Sep 2021 05:01:01 +0100 (BST)
Status: R

Load is huge: 3.58

;

Google doesn't recognise "draklog mail alert load is huge" as a search
target. Any ideas why/what?

https://www.howtogeek.com/194642/understanding-the-load-average-on-linux-and-other-unix-like-systems/

What kind of system considers a 3.58 load average as huge?

[Begin Old Man Rant]
Back in the '80s, my university ran BSD 4.2 (not Open/Free/Net, but
the original) on a Vax 11/780. Load average was probably around 7,
but during the last week of the semester it averaged 30+, with spikes
to 70... and it DID NOT CRASH.



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On Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:39:59 -0400, red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> wrote:

What kind of system considers a 3.58 load average as huge?

A single or dual core system. On my qaud core ...
$ uptime
13:32:56 up 2 days, 20:28, 2 users, load average: 0.94, 0.85, 0.86

Unlike old systems from back in the 80's, the bulk of the processes are used to provide interactive responses, so someone is sitting there waiting for them when they are running or waiting to run.

Regards, Dave Hodgins


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On 9/1/2021 10:37 AM, David W. Hodgins wrote:

On Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:39:59 -0400, red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> wrote:

What kind of system considers a 3.58 load average as huge?

A single or dual core system. On my qaud core ...
$ uptime
 13:32:56 up 2 days, 20:28,  2 users,  load average: 0.94, 0.85, 0.86

Unlike old systems from back in the 80's, the bulk of the processes are
used to
provide interactive responses, so someone is sitting there waiting for them when they are running or waiting to run.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

I did warn that it was an "Old Man Rant"....


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On Wed, 01 Sep 2021 15:11:55 -0400, red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> wrote:

I did warn that it was an "Old Man Rant"....

My first programming started in 75 with optical sense cards and later, card punches.
:-)

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On 01/09/2021 16:34, Grimble wrote:

I found the following in my mail box:
<
From: root@localhost
Subject: DrakLog Mail Alert
X-Mailer: Mail::Mailer[v2.21] Net::SMTP[v3.11]
Date: Wed,  1 Sep 2021 05:01:01 +0100 (BST)
Status: R

Load is huge: 3.58

Google doesn't recognise "draklog mail alert load is huge" as a search target. Any ideas why/what?

Thanks for your comments. This is a 6-core Ryzen CPU, 3 of which are
running Boinc, so if I understand your link, Dave, 3.58 ain't nuthin' to
be worried about.

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On Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:57:14 -0400, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

Thanks for your comments. This is a 6-core Ryzen CPU, 3 of which are
running Boinc, so if I understand your link, Dave, 3.58 ain't nuthin' to
be worried about.

Correct. There are a lot of legacy warnings built in that should be reviewed. In this case it dates back to when dual core systems were a novelty. As they are just cosmetic, that's not a high priority.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On 9/2/21 12:28, David W. Hodgins wrote:

On Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:57:14 -0400, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

Thanks for your comments. This is a 6-core Ryzen CPU, 3 of which are
running Boinc, so if I understand your link, Dave, 3.58 ain't nuthin' to
be worried about.

Correct. There are a lot of legacy warnings built in that should be reviewed.
In this case it dates back to when dual core systems were a novelty. As
they
are just cosmetic, that's not a high priority.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

And you may get better result as you move to 5.14.x which has modification specifically directed toward the new Ryzen processors from
AMD.
You can read more about and adventurous people no not me have
already compiled and tested the RC on their Ryzen machnes. <https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-5-14-officially-released-this-is-whats-new>


bliss don't use Mageia but has and honors its ancestors.

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On 2021-09-01, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On Wed, 01 Sep 2021 15:11:55 -0400, red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> wrote:

I did warn that it was an "Old Man Rant"....

My first programming started in 75 with optical sense cards and later, card punches.
:-)

For me 64 with punched tape and punched cards, or even flipping the
switches on the front panel of a 1620. An interesting machine. It did multiplication and addition using decimal lookup tables (Addresses 100-200 for addition
and 200-400 for multiplication if I recall correctly. So 1+1 could well
be 5 if you wanted.)

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On 4/9/21 2:47 am, William Unruh wrote:

For me 64 with punched tape and punched cards, or even flipping the
switches on the front panel of a 1620. An interesting machine. It did multiplication and addition using decimal lookup tables (Addresses 100-200 for addition
and 200-400 for multiplication if I recall correctly. So 1+1 could well
be 5 if you wanted.)

I once heard that 2 X 2 = 5
but only for extremely large values of 2




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On 04.09.2021 at 07:45, faeychild scribbled:

On 4/9/21 2:47 am, William Unruh wrote:

For me 64 with punched tape and punched cards, or even flipping the switches on the front panel of a 1620. An interesting machine. It
did multiplication and addition using decimal lookup tables
(Addresses 100-200 for addition and 200-400 for multiplication if I
recall correctly. So 1+1 could well be 5 if you wanted.)

I once heard that 2 X 2 = 5
but only for extremely large values of 2

Well, in some of the early Pentium processors, 4/2 was actually
1.99999... :p

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On Sat, 04 Sep 2021 07:45:13 +1000, faeychild wrote:

On 4/9/21 2:47 am, William Unruh wrote:

For me 64 with punched tape and punched cards, or even flipping the
switches on the front panel of a 1620. An interesting machine. It did
multiplication and addition using decimal lookup tables (Addresses
100-200 for addition and 200-400 for multiplication if I recall
correctly. So 1+1 could well be 5 if you wanted.)

I once heard that 2 X 2 = 5 but only for extremely large values of 2

Try 2.3 + 2.3 = 4.6 which rounds off to 5.

Or 2.6 + 2.6 = 5.2 trunctated to one digit yields 5.

As the tax attorney presented with a sample case by a
prospective client proposed, "What would you like the
tax to be?"

Cheers!

jim b.

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David W. Hodgins wrote on 3/9/21 5:28 am:

On Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:57:14 -0400, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

Thanks for your comments. This is a 6-core Ryzen CPU, 3 of which are
running Boinc, so if I understand your link, Dave, 3.58 ain't nuthin' to
be worried about.

Correct. There are a lot of legacy warnings built in that should be reviewed.
In this case it dates back to when dual core systems were a novelty. As
they
are just cosmetic, that's not a high priority.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

.... and, in this day and age when six or more cores are common, could we again say "dual core systems were a novelty"?? ;-P
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