[wplug] Understanding Load

[Zachary Uram]

On my AMD dual core desktop the biggest performance issues are due to
I/O and memory swapping.

Zach

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Matthew Zwier <mczwier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ditto on gauging the effect of a given load.  We have a NAS box with 8
> cores that hovers around load=64 when it's getting slammed by NFS
> requests, but the machine remains perfectly functional and usable.
> That load is acceptable in that case.  On the other hand, my
> workstation's mouse stops moving (even with Zen patches and the BFS
> scheduler) under high disk load sometimes, even though the load is
> only about 1.5 on a 4-core box.  So there, the load number is
> irrelevant with respect to functionality.


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Zach
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