Load over 1000

[David Schultz]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005, Christian Jachmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> seems that vm.loadavg cant grow over 1024
> 
> e.g.
> 
> last pid: 68005;  load averages: 993.78, 334.47, 636.27 up 0+03:26:16  15:12:28
> 1580 processes:1530 running, 50 sleeping
> CPU states: 95.0% user,  0.0% nice,  5.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> 
> having some senseless code to produce a load of 2000 on a system.
> 
> but... top does not show right values.
> 
> last pid: 68098;  load averages: 373.53, 641.73, 725.40 up 0+03:27:36  15:13:48
> 1673 processes:1621 running, 48 sleeping, 4 zombie
> CPU states: 96.9% user,  0.0% nice,  3.1% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> 
> 
> seems that there is a bug

Yes, see the comments in sys/param.h.  I'm sorry that you were
unable to accurately measure how much of your foot you're capable
of shooting off.