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I had heard that the load averages were the size of the scheduler's ready queue. If that is correct, wouldn't a load of more than 1.00 on a multi processor mac
by afhof 15y ago
I had heard that the load averages were the size of the scheduler's ready queue. If that is correct, wouldn't a load of more than 1.00 on a multi processor machine still be bad, since processes are ready to fire but are waiting for the next jiffy?
- seiji 15y agoHere's a more thorough treatment (with maths and all): http://www.teamquest.com/pdfs/whitepaper/ldavg1.pdf http://www.teamquest.com/pdfs/whitepaper/ldavg1.pdf http://www.teamquest.com/pdfs/whitepaper/ldavg2.pdf http://www.teamquest.com/pdfs/whitepaper/ldavg2.pdf
- kronusaturn 15y agoEach CPU has its own scheduler queue; load average represents the summed length of all of them.