On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:55:38PM +0200, Martin Schr?der wrote:
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> 2007/8/13, Joachim Schipper <j.schipper@math.uu.nl>:
> > 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.

Okay, that should be clear from the rest of the message, but 'it means
that at most one CPU is constantly working', or 'you cannot make this go
faster by throwing more CPUs at it'.

		Joachim

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