yes, i know about priority.

you have made an awfully lot of assumptions about our systems and our programs... not that i dont agree with you about the load average. it's just a number and there are countless discussions online why it is not such a useful metric (especially as all systems calculate it differently). but it all depends on the context in which its results are used. if you have long running processes that put sustained load on your systems and when the thresholds defined are more like rough delimiters it is a great metric to have around for micromanaging whether a non-critical daemon should wake up or just say "oh, i see you are kind of busy-ish, i'll come back again later".

i think we are getting offtopic. i posted this question because i thought i might have missed something in the immensely huge world of perl. no quick luck, so let's move on, thanks for the answers...

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