On 09/01/2015 02:43 PM, Xen wrote:
On Tue, 1 Sep 2015, John Andersen wrote:
Load average means nothing. The heat is important, pay attention to that, and ignore load average.
So load figures are really quite meaningless then?.
Never knew that... Never knew anything about it, really... ;-). :-/.
Until they get rather high, yes, meaningless. But even ONE task that is constantly needing even small amounts of CPU cycles can bring a single CPU to Load Average of 1. When there are dozens of tasks waiting for processor time, and your load average climes to 8 or 10, the machine is busy. I've seen load averages of 50 in a multiprocessor machine which was still quite responsive. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org