On Aug 10, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Matt Darnell wrote:
Aloha,
After goggling (sp?) load average I was surprised at how controversial
it is. It also make we wonder about the CPU % we get from Micro$oft.
Anyway.....If I have a server with a normal load average of ~ 0.20 & I
load up an SMP kernel with an additional processor, should the load
average drop to ~ 0.10 or can the load average go higher with less
worry?
as with many things, "it depends".
If you're really CPU bound, then... maybe.
I could, if you wanted the demo, artificially raise your load average
to > 300 and you'd still have a nice, crisp system.
what are you trying to do?
