So what does it actually mean when the default LA is 2.0 and 5.0?

Akshay


On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Frederic Sidler
<[email protected]>wrote:

> LA is a combination of different parameters. Nothing to do with CPU only.
>
> Envoyé de mon iPhone
>
>
> On 5 févr. 2010, at 16:53, Akshay Rao <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> When I am scaling my tomcat app layer based on LA I see the default
> settings to be 2.0 and 5.0.  This doesn't this mean CPU utilization of 2%
> and 5% right?  I read the description on <http://wiki.scalr.net>
> wiki.scalr.net as follows:
>
> *Load average based scaling*
>
> *Load average based scaling (aka LA) allows you to scale the size of your
> Farm based on an average of factors that include CPU usage. This is the best
> choice for most Roles, and the default scaling parameters of 2 and 5 is well
> suited. For example, you can configure your Farm to scale up if CPU usage
> goes over 80%, and down if below 20%*
>
> I think I am missing something - probably something pretty obvious knowing
> myself.
>
> Akshay
>
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