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From: "Nicolas Richard" <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Load average in make
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:07:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874nih2mle.fsf@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 50F6BDC6.5020104@nileshgr.com

Nilesh Govindrajan <me@nileshgr.com> writes:
> My question is which load average it checks? I'm assuming it checks
> for the 15 minute average?

I certainly don't know much about C, but from me grepping the source of
make, it seems that job.c does "getloadavg (&load, 1)". Moreover "man
getloadavg" says that the '1' there means to put the 1 minute load
average into 'load'.

hth,

-- 
Nico.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-16 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-16 11:09 [gentoo-user] Load average in make Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-01-16 12:49 ` Michael Hampicke
2013-01-16 14:48   ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-01-16 14:52     ` Michael Mol
2013-01-16 15:07     ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
2013-01-16 15:28       ` [gentoo-user] " Nilesh Govindrajan

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