2007/8/13, Joachim Schipper <j.schipper@math.uu.nl>:
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> Well, aside from the 'the load average is useless anyway' comments, a
> load average of 1 is not necessarily unacceptable on a multi-processor
> machine. (It means one CPU is constantly working.)

No. It means that 1 process is constantly waiting to be scheduled. It
has nothing to do with CPU utilization.

Best
   Martin