"Do we want to measure demand on the system in terms of threads, or just demand for physical resources?" The intent behind load averages is to measure how (ove

"Do we want to measure demand on the system in terms of threads, or just demand for physical resources?" The intent behind load averages is to measure how (over)loaded the hardware is; if you now try to re-define that intent, it will just be yet another Linux atrocity where Linux will be "special" and behave differently from how every other UNIX-like OS behaves (exempli gratia: ss versus netstat). I argue that this will help the momentum against Linux already fueled by, and well underway with the systemd fiasco. You would break the rule of least surprise. It's bad enough that Linux measures load differently from all other UNIX-like operating systems and this would make the situation even worse.