Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2001 20:12:21 -0600 (CST) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: heads-up: preempt kernel and tux NO-GO |
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, J Sloan wrote:
> I have been looking into the tux2 webserver - > Man, what a thing of beauty. A web benchmark > that sends the load on the web server to 150 > when running apache results in a load average > of maybe 2 when running tux, and much faster > results to boot - anyway, I digress....
Loadavg isn't much of a measure here, it's a measure of the length of the runnable queue. If you've only got two processes because your server has a thread per processor, then yes, you'll see lower loadavg, but not lower load. A real measure would look at idle percentage and throughput.
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