| M. Jackson Wilkinson on Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:03:00 -0500 |
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:58:37PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > mh. well, i am not entirely sure of this, but i thought that a load of > 2.00 indicates that to the best of linux's knowledge, two of the > processors of which one is currently running would be 100% busy. > > otherwise you will have to persuade me that 2.00 is 2% and that my > systems on average use only 0.30% of the cpu. :) > well, like I mentioned in my last post (I'm dropping packets, so it may never get through, but I'm trying), load is not strictly based on CPU, but on all resources. I think that it maxes out on 3 per processor. You might want to parooze the kernel source and grep for comments and see what the algorithm is. -- M. Jackson Wilkinson <jackw@jounce.net> Jounce Multimedia Services Voicemail: 877-832-9021 Cell: 215-919-1513 Attachment:
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