diff --git a/clusterd/clusterd b/clusterd/clusterd
index 2851a3f..82f6a66 100755
--- a/clusterd/clusterd
+++ b/clusterd/clusterd
@@ -31,10 +31,6 @@ sub machine {
     return $machine;
 }
 
-sub is_alpha {
-    return machine() eq 'alpha';
-}
-
 sub uptime {
     open U,'<','/proc/uptime' or die "/proc/uptime: $!\n";
     my $data;
@@ -345,7 +341,7 @@ package My::Select::INET ;
 use Carp;
 use IO::Socket::INET;
 
-our $UDP_MAX = 1472; # for broadcast on alphas
+our $UDP_MAX = 1472;
 
 our $SOL_SOCKET=1;
 our $SO_ERROR=4;
@@ -719,7 +715,7 @@ use Sys::Syslog;
 use IO::Socket::INET;
 use Data::Dumper;
 
-our $UDP_MAX=1472; # for broadcast on alphas
+our $UDP_MAX=1472;
 our $UDP_PORT=234;
 our $BC_RATE = 8; # packets per second broadcast
 our $TCP_TIMEOUT=30; # default timeout for tcp processing
@@ -1012,9 +1008,6 @@ if ($machine eq 'i686') {
     $UTIME_OMIT=(1<<30)-2; # /usr/include/bits/stat.h
     $AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW=0x100; # /usr/include/fcntl.h
     $lmtime_sub=\&lmtime_utimensat;
-} elsif ($machine eq 'alpha') {
-    $SYS_lchown=208; # SYS_lchown in /usr/include/syscall.h
-    $SYS_mknod=14; # SYS_mknod
 } elsif ($machine eq 'amd64') {
     $SYS_lchown=254; # SYS_lchown in /usr/include/syscall.h
     $SYS_mknod=14; # SYS_mknod
@@ -1198,7 +1191,6 @@ sub sample_rproc { # every 5 seconds
 our ($CPUS,$BOGOMIPS);
 
 sub init_cpuinfo {
-    Donald::Tools::is_alpha and return;
     open L,'<','/proc/cpuinfo' or return;
     while (<L>) {
         if (/^bogomips\s*:\s*([\d.]+)/) {$CPUS++;$BOGOMIPS+=$1;}
@@ -1206,25 +1198,17 @@ sub init_cpuinfo {
 }
 
 sub loadavg { # AXP : (system load average)  ,  LINUX: (system load average, pload, freebogo)
-    if (Donald::Tools::is_alpha) {
-        my $data=pack 'l!3lx4l!3';
-        my $i=syscall(85,3,0,$data,1,length($data));    # table(id=TBL_LOADAVG,index=0,addr=data,nel=1,lel=56)
-        my ($l0,$l1,$l2,$scale,$mach0,$mach1,$mach2)=unpack 'l!3lx4l!3',$data;
-        $scale or return undef;
-        return $l0/$scale;
+    $CPUS or init_cpuinfo();
+    my $running_proc=running_proc();
+    open L,'<','/proc/loadavg' or return undef;
+    my $data;
+    sysread(L,$data,1024);
+    close L;
+    $data =~ /^(\d+\.?\d*)/ or return undef; # 5 min loadavg
+    if ($CPUS) {
+        return ($1+0,($running_proc)/$CPUS,($running_proc>=$CPUS?0:($CPUS-$running_proc)*$BOGOMIPS));
     } else {
-        $CPUS or init_cpuinfo();
-        my $running_proc=running_proc();
-        open L,'<','/proc/loadavg' or return undef;
-        my $data;
-        sysread(L,$data,1024);
-        close L;
-        $data =~ /^(\d+\.?\d*)/ or return undef; # 5 min loadavg
-        if ($CPUS) {
-            return ($1+0,($running_proc)/$CPUS,($running_proc>=$CPUS?0:($CPUS-$running_proc)*$BOGOMIPS));
-        } else {
-            return $1+0;
-        }
+        return $1+0;
     }
 }
 
@@ -2081,7 +2065,7 @@ if (defined $options{'push'}) {
 
     My::Select::timeout(60,\&purge_old_receiver);
     My::Select::timeout(rand(60),\&send_stat);
-    My::Select::timeout(0,\&sample_rproc) unless Donald::Tools::is_alpha;
+    My::Select::timeout(0,\&sample_rproc);
     $my_hostname eq $STAT_TARGET and My::Cluster::Updown::init();
     $my_hostname eq 'macheteinfach' and My::NetlogReceiver::init();
     My::Select::timeout(600,\&check_overload);