On Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:58:20 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > Going further, this page states: > > "The load average value is the same as displayed by top or uptime, and for > an N-core system, a load average of N.0 would be a 100% load. Another rule > of thumb here is to set X.Y=N*0.9 which will limit the load to 90%, thus > maintaining system responsiveness."
That's the first reference I've seen to percentage load. Interesting. Perhaps changes are afoot already. > So, how many cores does your system have? For a 16 core system, if you want > 40% load, you only want to spawn 16 * 0.4 jobs so you'd set that value to > 6.4 24 cores, but portage is ignoring my load-average anyway, so I'm interested to see what the bug reports elicits. -- Regards, Peter.
