From: J.A.J. van Belkum (no email)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 09:04:34 EDT
I understand that LA is the following:
The average number of processes that the scheduler has to choose from
when it decides which process is going to run next.
So (simply put) if you have 1 processor with a LA of 2 (so you have an
average of two processes waiting to be run), and you add a processor....
One process will go to the new processor and your LA will drop by 1.
Resulting in a LA of 1. So if you have a load of 746, by adding 745
processors your load will go down to 1.
Cami wrote:
> | Just kidding... didn't reeeealy wan't to make it look like a real load
> | avg...
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> | Your load avg would suggest that you would need 745 more processors to
> | have the load avg back to 1 Doesn't that scare you??
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> load average is not calculated alone on how busy a processor is, so no ;)
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