On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm still concerned about portability issues, and about whether load
> average is really the right number to be looking at, however.
Its worked for Sendmail for how many years now, and the code is there to
use, with all "portability issues resolved for every platform they use ...
and a growing number of platforms appear to have the mechanisms already
built into their C libraries ...