Talk:Load (computing): Difference between revisions

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:So your just complaining about how it's worded?--[[User:Bobby D. DS.|Bobby D. DS.]] 23:17, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Nope. He was pointing out that just calculating the CPU load average could be meaningless on those systems that change CPU frequency

on the fly. If, for example, you see 50%, it's 50% of what ? (of maximum CPU capacity at that particular frequency).

It's like measuring speed from an erratically moving car.

If that is to be fixed, it would have to somehow poll the frequency that the cpu is running at.

== Processes or jobs? ==