Is there a contradiction in this article?
In the "Calculating Load Average" section, it states:
each process that is using the CPU or waiting for disk activity adds 1 to the load number
In the "Important things to note" section, it states:
processes which are awaiting I/O, "sleeping" or "blocked" don't contribute to load average
Doesn't "waiting for disk activity" mean that a process is blocked waiting for disk I/O?
In general, it would be very helpful if this article explained in which "states" a process contributes to the load number.
Beric 21:45, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Optimum load average should be the same as the number of processors (or in case of hyperthreading, virtual processors). ie not 2 for a dual processor sysem, 4 for a dual processor with hyper etc...