Re: [uml-user] /proc/loadavg

[Jeff D. <jd...@ka...>]

pet...@ku... said:
> uml:~ # cat /proc/loadavg
> 0.07 0.02 0.00 1/35 20679
> (The real load at this moment is about 15 .-) )

Well, that is the UML load average...

> Are there some other strange donts (side-effects i've not seen yet) to
> alter this to get the loadavg of  the real machine? (i think i am able
> to alter this in the code, thats not the question).

No, the host load average is invisible inside UML.  Although, possibly
a new /proc file could be written to import the host load and it could
be mounted on top of /proc/loadavg...

> (Think about running sendmail(s) inside the uml in depency of the real
> load) 

That's sort of bogus anyway.  The machine load average isn't the only resource
that sendmail can abuse.  I.e. it could send out a ton of mail, which overloads
the gateway to the outside world.  sendmail doesn't attempt to check for
that.  So, I would consider the host load to be yet another resource that
sendmail could use up, but it doesn't check.

				Jeff