check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

[Terry]

This is the logic I was looking for.  This makes sense.  Apache with
prefork is not multithreaded and this type of logic is great. But do
you shoot yourself in the foot for multithreaded processes?

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Mike Emigh <maemigh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Terry <td3201 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I am sitting here racking my brain on this one.  Is dividing the load
>  > average by the number of CPUs a smart thing to do?  the 'uptime'
>  > command on a box does not do this.  So, if I have an 8 core box
>  > sitting with a load average of 8, its the same as a single core box
>  > sitting with a load average of 1?  I'll see the same type of server
>  > response?  Thoughts?
>  >
>
>  It's not necessarily the same.  If you have a single-threaded process
>  pegging one of the cores, your load average can hit 8 even if the 7
>  other cores are sitting idle.
>
>
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