"Load-value normalizing" : Am 23.06.2011 um 23:48 schrieb Andre Merzky:
Hi Mariusz,
some comments inlined :-)
Cheers, Andre.
2011/6/23 Mariusz MamoĊski <mamonski@man.poznan.pl>:
"The load value MUST be always within the <0;1> range (inclusive). The value 0 should indicate that machine is idling, while the 1 that all computing units are used"
Sounds sensible to me, although I have often seen load values >1, mostly indicating that a machine is overloaded. You may want to change the MUST into a SHOULD thus?
I disagree! We agreed that the value "is similar to the uptime" command. Load values indeed can be bigger than 1 because they measure the amount of "runnable" processes in average. There is no need to artificially normalize the value somehow because the max. number is unknown. We should take whatever the DRM is reporting us, and this is similar to the uptime command (and by the way also depends on the amount of cores). This is we agreed on. Daniel