Yes that was the example I found too. I'm still not sure about multi-threaded CPU's though....
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 07:43 +1000, James Polley wrote: > 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 -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . I want to share something with you -- the three sentences that will get you through life. Number one, "Cover for me." Number two, "Oh, good idea, boss." Number three, "It was like that when I got here." -- Homer Simpson -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
