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 From:  Manuel Kasper <mk at neon1 dot net>
 To:  Mine GO BOOM <minegoboom at gmail dot com>
 Cc:  m0n0wall dash dev at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
 Subject:  Re: [m0n0wall-dev] Initial 1.6 Gigahertz AMD Opteron Benchmark
 Date:  Thu, 09 Sep 2004 18:53:56 +0200 
On 09.09.2004 11:50 -0400, Mine GO BOOM wrote:

> That reminds me: why was the load averages removed from the uptime
> line on index.php? When I was testing the traffic shaper, it helped
> me out in judging how well it would work under heavy load, since the
> processor in mine is very weak. I guess I'll just have to go through
> exec.php now.

Because the load averages are no good for telling how much CPU time
was spent in the kernel (where all the I/O and packet filtering
happens). They're simply misleading on a system like m0n0wall.

- Manuel