check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

[Mike Emigh]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Terry <td3201 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am sitting here racking my brain on this one.  Is dividing the load
> average by the number of CPUs a smart thing to do?  the 'uptime'
> command on a box does not do this.  So, if I have an 8 core box
> sitting with a load average of 8, its the same as a single core box
> sitting with a load average of 1?  I'll see the same type of server
> response?  Thoughts?
>

It's not necessarily the same.  If you have a single-threaded process
pegging one of the cores, your load average can hit 8 even if the 7
other cores are sitting idle.

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