[Gllug] Biitorrent for a dummy

[Martin A. Brooks]

Tethys wrote:

> Errr... no. It means that your box is too heavily loaded. A load average
>
>of 0 is opitimal. A load average of 1 means that your CPU can't keep up
>with the amount of work being thrown at it. 
>

So my dual opteron 242 running two copies of setiathome and therefore 
having a load average of 2 is too heavily loaded?  Weird, it manages to 
run a complete desktop environment, play mp3s, let's me browse the web, 
read mail, tail logs etc whilst doing so.

Let's look at this a different way: A load average of zero means your 
CPU is doing nothing, and is therefore wasted.  Sounds like 
overprovisioning to me.

Mart.



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