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From:	Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Load average in make
Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:28:59
Message-Id:	`50F6C72B.9010307@nileshgr.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Re: Load average in make by Nicolas Richard

1	On Wednesday 16 January 2013 08:37:09 PM IST, Nicolas Richard wrote:
2	> Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com> writes:
3	>> My question is which load average it checks? I'm assuming it checks
4	>> for the 15 minute average?
5	>
6	> I certainly don't know much about C, but from me grepping the source of
7	> make, it seems that job.c does "getloadavg (&load, 1)". Moreover "man
8	> getloadavg" says that the '1' there means to put the 1 minute load
9	> average into 'load'.
10	>
11	> hth,
12	>
13
14	Yes, it really does get the one minute average. Confirmed using a dummy
15	program using that function to report load.
16	Thanks guys.
17
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19	Nilesh Govindarajan
20	http://nileshgr.com