On Wednesday 01 March 2006 13:34, Lamar Owen wrote: > The E6500 had 14 CPU's and 16GB of RAM at the time, and > was serving an ab load (apache bench) of 256 concurrent requests to a Koha > integrated library system backend, over a total of 2.5 million requests. But isn't load simply added by the number of processors? EG: A load average of "1.00" on a 4-way system actually indicates 25% usage? 250/14 could indicate an effective load average of 17, which is still high, but still - how much of that load was due to I/O? -Ben -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978