[asterisk-users] Is there real benefits on a SMP machine for Asterisk?

[Philipp Kempgen]

Erik Anderson wrote:

> On 10/12/07, Philipp Kempgen <philipp.kempgen at amooma.de> wrote:
>> I wouldn't be too happy about a system with a
>> loadavg of 3.
> 
> The system he mentioned had 8 cores, though.  So a load average of 3
> is less than 50% usage.

I don't think there is a formula like
cpu usage = loadavg / #cpus

A loadavg of 3 says that there are 3 processes waiting to
be executed.

Anyway, I'll admit that a loadavg of 3 /might/ be ok.

Regards,
  Philipp Kempgen

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