On Tue, 1 Sep 2015, John Andersen wrote:
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.
My system is idling quite nicely at say 0.50, 0.40, 0.40. I don't know what those numbers are the thing is supposed to have two cores, and the numbers change constantly but always below 0.8 I guess. In the past in another distro this same KDE would have a bug that got the "plasma-desktop" process up to 100% all the time. Now, I'm not sure if it was not related to a buggy icon, since I read there were bugs about certain icons in the system causing that. It could have been an icon related to some program I used. In any case, I haven't had that for a while. Firefox is sometimes taking up to 25% with 12 open windows (tabs) and that's not all bad either. It feels like a nice desktop for the first time. Regards...
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