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by floatboth 3449 days ago
> in which case it's ignored

Ignored by the application, sure. But FreeBSD always prints useful stuff like load, current command, its pid and state:

$ dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/null

load: 0.72 cmd: dd 5820 [running] 0.70r 0.02u 0.68s 6% 2008k

263276+0 records in

263276+0 records out

134797312 bytes transferred in 0.708372 secs (190291809 bytes/sec)

(here, the "load:..." line is from the system, and the other 3 lines are from dd)