Megatest

	 ;; effective load accounts for load jumps, this should elminate all the first-next-avg, adjwait, load-jump-limit
	 ;; etc.
	 (effective-load    (common:get-intercept first next))
	 (recommended-delay (common:get-delay effective-load numcpus))
	 (effective-host    (or remote-host "localhost"))
	 (normalized-effective-load (/ effective-load numcpus))
	 (will-wait                 (> normalized-effective-load maxnormload)))
    (if (> recommended-delay 0)
    (if (> recommended-delay 1) 
	(let* ((actual-delay (min recommended-delay 30)))
	  (if (common:low-noise-print 30 (conc (round actual-delay) "-safe-load"))
	      (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "Load control, delaying "
				actual-delay " seconds to maintain safe load. current normalized effective load is "
				normalized-effective-load". maxnormload = " maxnormload " numcpus = " numcpus " loadavg = " loadavg " effective-load = " effective-load))
	  (thread-sleep! actual-delay)))
    
    (cond
     ;; bad data, try again to get the data
     ((not will-wait)
      (if (common:low-noise-print 30 (conc (round normalized-effective-load) "-load-acceptable-" effective-host))
	  (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "Effective load on " effective-host " is acceptable at " effective-load " continuing.")))
      ;; (if (common:low-noise-print 30 (conc (round normalized-effective-load) "-load-acceptable-" effective-host))
      ;;	  (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "Effective load on " effective-host " is acceptable at " effective-load " continuing.")))

     ((and (< first 0) ;; this indicates the loadavg data is bad - machine may not be reachable
	   (> num-tries 0))
      (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "WARNING: received bad data from get-cpu-load "
		   first ", we'll sleep 10s and try " num-tries " more times.")
      (thread-sleep! 10)
      (common:wait-for-cpuload maxnormload numcpus-in
			       count: count remote-host: remote-host num-tries: (- num-tries 1)))

     ;; need to wait for load to drop
     ((and will-wait ;; (> first adjmaxload)
	   (> count 0))
      (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port*
			"Delaying 15" ;; adjwait
			" seconds due to normalized effective load " normalized-effective-load ;; first
			" exceeding max of " adjmaxload