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Re:Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried? by afhof on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @04:32PM (#2809358)
I had heard that the load averages were the size of the scheduler's ready queue. If that is correct, wouldn't a load of more than 1.00 on a multi processor machine still be bad, since processes are ready to fire but are waiting for the next jiffy?
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Re:Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried? by seiji on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @04:37PM (#2809383)
Here's a more thorough treatment (with maths and all):

http://www.teamquest.com/pdfs/whitepaper/ldavg1.pdf

http://www.teamquest.com/pdfs/whitepaper/ldavg2.pdf

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Re:Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried? by kronusaturn on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @04:42PM (#2809405)
Each CPU has its own scheduler queue; load average represents the summed length of all of them.
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