On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:33 PM, John Andersen
Load average means nothing. The heat is important, pay attention to that, and ignore load average.
Look, in an intelligently scaling system, where CPUs are ramped down to save power, the load average will go up, because less cpu power is available to handle the load. (It will approach 1.xx, but seldom more, because all tasks waiting for CPU time are being handled by the available (throtteled) CPU. When it raises above one, an intelligent CPU management system will throttle up the CPU(s).
There is no point in running CPUs at full frequency to accomplish a tiny amount of work. A smart system makes just enough CPU cycles available to accomplish the tasks waiting for CPU cycles. So naturally, Load Average (which only counts task waiting for a time slice) will approach 1 on a properly scaling architecture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)#Unix-style_load_calculation
Hm, makes sense. But it is still 800MHz cpu fully loaded while idle, no? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org