> Hello,
> 
> I have a RH5 machine where load is quiet inequally distributed, as
> reported by sar:
> 
>                   CPU     %user     %nice   %system   %iowait    %steal     
> %idle
> Average:          all      3.26      0.00      1.80      0.02      0.00     
> 94.92
> Average:            0     20.73      0.00     10.78      0.05      0.00     
> 68.44
> Average:            1      0.68      0.00      0.53      0.00      0.00     
> 98.78
> Average:            2      1.07      0.00      0.65      0.00      0.00     
> 98.28
> Average:            3      0.73      0.00      0.48      0.01      0.00     
> 98.78
> Average:            4      0.62      0.00      0.49      0.05      0.00     
> 98.84
> Average:            5      0.70      0.00      0.50      0.04      0.00     
> 98.77
> Average:            6      0.69      0.00      0.44      0.00      0.00     
> 98.87
> Average:            7      0.75      0.00      0.48      0.00      0.00     
> 98.76
> 
> The machine runs apache (prefork-mpm) which serves php pages from an
> NFS mount.
> 
> As the machine is not very loaded, it's not really a problem. But I'm 
> wondering what will happen when load rises.
> 
> Should I worry about weirdness ? Is it possible to alter the way the
> scheduler work ?

What problem are you trying to solve?

Energy-wise it's better to have one slightly loaded core and the rest 
idling instead of all cores doing minimal work.

-- 

  Jussi

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