Talk:Load (computing): Difference between revisions

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[[Special:Contributions/194.166.103.157|194.166.103.157]] ([[User talk:194.166.103.157|talk]]) 21:41, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

== definition is ridiculous ==

The term "system load" (the title of this article) cannot be defined using the term itself.

: In UNIX computing, the system load is a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs. The load averagerepresents the average system load over a period of time. It conventionally appears in the form of three numbers which represent the system load during the last one-, five-, and fifteen-minute periods.

This is an unacceptable definition.

I am capable of providing a substantial rewrite to this article and creating one that is much more useful in explaining how this works on Unix systems (and probably the article should be retitled as 'system load' is a dramatically different term on Unix (&Unix-like) systems than it is on mainframe and Windows systems (as well as realtime systems like embedded). I note also that this article has "needed references" since 2010.

As somebody who has been an editor of this fine encyclopedia since 2004, I am hesitant to even bother making these changes as I am aware the piranhas will attack and say "well you cannot just go and edit this thing without sources." I have been a Unix engineer for twenty years and ''I am a source''. You are unlikely to find sources to corroborate things in this article as Unix is a moving target. As kernels in Linux have progressed from 2.2 to 2.4 to 2.6 and the 3 kernels, system load has changed dramatically and how we measure it has changed.

I therefore also feel that the tag demanding this article be better referenced is preposterous. The tag should be removed, and people who have their dander up about sources on this article should perhaps be asked to undander themselves. <b>...&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: #11cbc4;width:52px;height:16px;font-size:12px;p{text-align:center}">[[user:avriette|jane avriette]]:[[user_talk:avriette|talk]]</span> 19:15, 28 October 2015 (UTC)