I was going to say something, but http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/display/5/index.htm says it much better than I can, so I'll just go back to bed.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > multiple cores are seen as multiple cpus. so there is no difference. > > i dont know how threads are implemented in the cpu. > > a load average of 2.0 on a dual cpu (or dual core) system is a 100% load > average. accroding to man. > > > Dean > > Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > A question about uptime. My understanding of the load average figures is > > that a figure less than 2.0 on a 2 CPU machine means the CPUs don't have > > more work than they can keep up with (on average). > > > > How is this figure (1 per CPU) affected on multicore CPUs? What about > > multi-threaded CPU's? > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > -- There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself - Zhasper, 2004 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
