Re: /proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Tim Connors wrote:

> John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au> said on Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:34:03 +0800:
>  
>
> > Tim Connors wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Oh - and the waiting 5 seconds for your bash *shell* to echo a single
> > > character keypress. <shudder>.
> > >      
> > At present I'm working from home by dialup. I frequently run gvim as a 
> > scratch-pad from which to multiclick and paste commands into my 
> > multitudinous terminals. Otheriwse the dialup would be unusable while 
> > getting my Sarge fixes, my email, checking /..
> >
> > Well, not the last.
> >
> > Pings often exceed 5 secs.
> >    
>
> Slightly different story though. I'm talking about a local connection
> not letting bash get enough timeslices to be able to register a
> keypress and display it.
>
>  

Yeah, I know. Feels much the same tho.

> But I do frequently get ping times and ssh responses of 5 seconds over
> my 1500mbit ADSL, because someone happens to be uploading an ISO or
> whatever. I really would like it if our router did traffic shaping (I
> don't want to have to get another box to do the shaping for us, and
> then have to pay the electricity)
>
> I just forbade my housemate from uploading ISOs while I was trying to
> work :)
>
>  
Tunnel his traffic through your box. Shape her there:-)


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John

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