Ammar Askar <am...@ammaraskar.com> added the comment:
I don't think taking instantaneous values instead of averaging will work out too well. For reference I've attached a screenshot. It has sampled values at every second on an unloaded computer and then with running prime95 for cpu stress testing. The load tends to peak and fall. >Is it exactly the same thing on Unix (load average)? Indeed it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)#Unix-style_load_calculation "An idle computer has a load number of 0 (the idle process isn't counted). Each process using or waiting for CPU (the ready queue or run queue) increments the load number by 1." >From what I can tell, the number of processors are dealt with the same way as >on Linux, that is, a single core processor is overloaded when the load is >1 >and a quad core processor is overloaded when the load is >4 ---------- Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file47694/benchmark.PNG _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34060> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
