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Re:Pessimism about parallelism by bitwize on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @09:24PM (#18766771)
Oddly enough the load average, as reported by uptime and xload, uses just this metric: a machine with one CPU pegged has a load of 1.0. A fully utilized octa-core machine has a load of 8.0.
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