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Not following. Linux reports each core as 100%. So an 8 core machine maxes at 800%. So seeing 200 load doesn't indicate to me that it's throttled, but that i
by axaxs 5y ago
Not following. Linux reports each core as 100%. So an 8 core machine maxes at 800%.
So seeing 200 load doesn't indicate to me that it's throttled, but that it's using the equivalent of two full cores. Or did I misunderstand?
- sharedfrog 5y agoThey're saying it can go over 1(00%) per core.
- viraptor 5y agoThe context was load average, not CPU usage percentage. The load of 1 means (more or less, I'm simplifying) "all the time there one task ready to be run, so no other task is starved". In most systems/situations you'd see load <1. But there are specific cases where it would be silly high. For example I've seen >400 on a VoIP conference server. It's more of a "pressure" / "need" measurement. And yeah, applying that to per-process CPU measurement would be interesting.