Re: What exactly is 'load average' ?

From: Dr. David Kirkby (drkirkby_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 06/20/03 

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:09:20 +0100

"Kurtis D. Rader" wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 18:57:18 +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
>
> > Well, it might be interesting, but it's certainly not accurate.
>
> What part of my answer wasn't accurate? I'll accept that we disagree about
> the magnitude of the impact a digital decay versus a true moving average
> has on the meaning of the metric but I don't see how that difference of
> opinion makes my description inaccurate.

How about the effect of multiple processors ? 

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