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From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: Load Averages on Multiprocessors
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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 20:16:39 GMT
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From the keyboard of rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim):
:Should the average length of the run queue be divided by the
:number of proccessors in the system or reported as is? Why?
:
:What do various vendors do? I know about Sequent and Pyramid.

On a Convex, the load average is the sum of run queues of
each processor.  So a C-240 with a load average of 3 would 
still have one head free (on the average).

--tom