[PATCH] Add load average support to makehistory

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Russ,

>>> as reported/proposed in RedHat bugzilla
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=276061 by Jonathan Kamens,
>>> it would be good to add support for load average into makehistory.
>
> I'm not sure that I understand why this is a reasonable solution.
> makehistory is a maintenance program that isn't ever run automatically.
> If the administrator, while running it manually, would like it not to
> dominate the system, isn't that what the nice command is for?

You're right.  Besides, I do not see a call to makehistory in rc.news.
(Nor in the one shipped with Fedora.)

The user wrote:

    With this change in place, I simply
    modified /etc/rc.news to add "-L 2" to the makehistory invocation,
    and presto, my machine is perfectly useable while makehistory is running.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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