Index: Makefile
==================================================================
--- Makefile
+++ Makefile
@@ -104,10 +104,14 @@
 	chmod a+x $@
 
 $(PREFIX)/bin/nbfind : utils/nbfind
 	$(INSTALL) $< $@
 	chmod a+x $@
+
+$(PREFIX)/bin/nbload : utils/nbload
+	$(INSTALL) $< $@
+	chmod a+x $@
 
 $(PREFIX)/bin/refdb : refdb
 	$(INSTALL) $< $@
 	chmod a+x $@
 
@@ -125,11 +129,11 @@
 	$(INSTALL) dboard $(PREFIX)/bin/dboard
 	utils/mk_wrapper $(PREFIX) dboard > $(PREFIX)/bin/dashboard
 	chmod a+x $(PREFIX)/bin/dashboard
 
 install : bin $(PREFIX)/bin/mtest $(PREFIX)/bin/megatest $(PREFIX)/bin/dboard $(PREFIX)/bin/dashboard $(HELPERS) $(PREFIX)/bin/nbfake \
-          $(PREFIX)/bin/nbfind $(PREFIX)/bin/newdboard $(PREFIX)/bin/refdb $(PREFIX)/bin/mt_xterm $(PREFIX)/bin/revtagfsl
+          $(PREFIX)/bin/nbfind $(PREFIX)/bin/nbload $(PREFIX)/bin/newdboard $(PREFIX)/bin/refdb $(PREFIX)/bin/mt_xterm $(PREFIX)/bin/revtagfsl
 
 deploytarg/apropos.so : Makefile
 	for i in apropos base64 canvas-draw csv-xml directory-utils dot-locking extras fmt format hostinfo http-client intarweb json md5 message-digest posix posix-extras readline regex regex-case s11n spiffy spiffy-request-vars sqlite3 srfi-1 srfi-18 srfi-69 tcp test uri-common check-errors synch matchable sql-null tcp-server rpc blob-utils string-utils variable-item defstruct uri-generic sendfile opensll openssl lookup-table list-utils stack; do \
 	chicken-install -prefix deploytarg -deploy $$i;done
 

Index: utils/nbload
==================================================================
--- utils/nbload
+++ utils/nbload
@@ -2,23 +2,28 @@
 
 # load=`uptime|awk '{print $10}'|cut -d, -f1`
 load=`uptime|perl -pe 's/.*: (\d+.\d+),.*/$1/'`
 if which cpucheck > /dev/null;then
     numcpu=`cpucheck|tail -1|awk '{print $6}'`
-else
+elif which lscpu > /dev/null;then
     numcpu=`lscpu|grep "CPU.s.:"|awk '{print $2}'`
+else
+    numcpu=2
 fi
 
+# NB// max_load is in units of percent.
+#
 lperc=`echo "100 * $load / $numcpu"|bc`
 if [[ "x$MAX_ALLOWED_LOAD" == "x" ]]; then
-  max_load=50
+  max_load=100
 else
   max_load=$MAX_ALLOWED_LOAD
-fi 
-if [[ $lperc -lt $max_load ]];then
-  echo "$@" | at now + 0 minutes
-elif [[ "x$NBLAUNCHER" == "x" ]];then
-  echo "nbfind $@" | at now + 2 minutes
-else
-  $NBLAUNCHER "$@"
 fi
 
+if [[  $lperc -lt $max_load ]];then
+  echo "Load acceptable: lperc=$lperc %, max_load=$max_load %, load=$load, numcpu=$numcpu, MAX_ALLOWED_LOAD=$MAX_ALLOWED_LOAD %"
+  echo "Starting command: \"$@\""
+  nbfake "$@"
+else
+  # echo "Load too high: lperc=$lperc, max_load=$max_load, waiting two minutes before trying to run command: \"$@\""
+  echo "nbload $@" | at now + 2 minutes 2> /dev/null
+fi