[LUAU] Load Average Question

[Jim Thompson]

On Aug 10, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Matt Darnell wrote:

> Aloha,
>
> After goggling (sp?) load average I was surprised at how controversial
> it is.  It also make we wonder about the CPU % we get from Micro$oft.
>
> Anyway.....If I have a server with a normal load average of ~ 0.20 & I
> load up an SMP kernel with an additional processor, should the load
> average drop to ~ 0.10 or can the load average go higher with less
> worry?

as with many things, "it depends".

If you're really CPU bound, then... maybe.

I could, if you wanted the demo, artificially raise your load average  
to > 300 and you'd still have a nice, crisp system.

what are you trying to do?