Subj : *BSD
To   : Pierre Staag
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Wed Jun 27 2001 12:11 am

Hi Pierre.

25-Jun-01 11:13:33, Pierre Staag wrote to Jasen Betts

 JB>> 26 processors - not surprising a load of 32 isn't worrying it
 JB>> then. IIRC that'd be like a load of 1.23 on a single processor.

 PS> I got a question then, since I'm not experienced in using a
 PS> multiprocessor-system

 PS> Isn't the load supposed to be 1.00 when _all_ the CPU:s are in
 PS> full use?

hmm, yeah, I think you're right. (to self:duh!) (to francois: sorry)

 PS> Btw, the highest load I've ever seen was a linuxbox (which
 PS> probably doesn't count in here...) that more or less stopped when
 PS> the load reached 180. But on the other hand, 30 minutes or so
 PS> later everything was back to normal

I think linux is close enough to "unix" for most people here.

180 load, doing what? a highly parallel compile?

 -=> Bye <=-

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