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I know. But as I already pointed out, basing real-time decisions upon what happened 128 billion clock cycles ago, is like trying to play the stock market based upon event that happened circa the building of the Great Pyramid. And that's just the 1 minute figure... the other two are geometrically more useless.

As any day-trader will tell you, even the 20 minute delay of the popular "free" stock market quotes is waaay too long.

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Re^8: portable way to get system load average
by loadaverage (Novice) on Jul 07, 2010 at 16:13 UTC

    i think you lost me.

    the 1 minute means a simple rolling average, not "1 minute ago". i am making the decision based on an average calculated for "128 billion cycles" up to "just before now", not "128 billion cycles ago". that number is "good enough" indicator for my purposes.

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