What should the CPU usage be of a fully-loaded CPU that has been throttled?

Re:What should the CPU usage be of a fully-loaded CPU that h... by axaxs on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:38PM (#27727059)

Not following. Linux reports each core as 100%. So an 8 core machine maxes at 800%.

So seeing 200 load doesn't indicate to me that it's throttled, but that it's using the equivalent of two full cores. Or did I misunderstand?

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Re:What should the CPU usage be of a fully-loaded CPU that h... by viraptor on Sunday July 04, 2021 @04:14AM (#27728074)

The context was load average, not CPU usage percentage. The load of 1 means (more or less, I'm simplifying) "all the time there one task ready to be run, so no other task is starved". In most systems/situations you'd see load <1. But there are specific cases where it would be silly high. For example I've seen >400 on a VoIP conference server.

It's more of a "pressure" / "need" measurement. And yeah, applying that to per-process CPU measurement would be interesting.

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Re:What should the CPU usage be of a fully-loaded CPU that h... by sharedfrog on Sunday July 04, 2021 @02:38AM (#27727697)

They're saying it can go over 1(00%) per core.

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