Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-apr-dev-archive@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 53584 invoked by uid 500); 29 Jun 2002 04:16:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@apr.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 53571 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2002 04:16:25 -0000 Message-ID: <3D1D3161.50402@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:02:41 -0700 From: Brian Pane User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dev@apr.apache.org Subject: Re: A common method for determining system utilization References: <3D1D3032.3000102@apache.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: 209.66.108.5 1.6.2 0/1000/N Ian Holsman wrote: > do you think that it is worthwhile having a APR function to determine > system load ? > > I was thinking of adding a feature to mod_defalte which turns it off > if system load goes over a magic number. I like the idea. But do you really want load (in the Unix sense, i.e. run queue length), or would % CPU utilization be a better metric? --Brian