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

[Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC]

Steve Totaro wrote:
> I don't think that is correct.  I am running worldcommunitygrid and this 
> is what I get
>
> top - 13:18:56 up 3 days, 22:49, 1 user, load average: 4.00, 4.04, 4.02
>
> Cpu0:0.0%us,0.7%sy,99.3%ni,0.0%id,0.0%wa,0.0%hi,0.0%si,0.0%st
> Cpu1:0.0%us,0.0%sy,100.0%ni,0.0%id,0.0%wa,0.0%hi,0.0%si,0.0%st
> Cpu2:0.0%us,0.3%sy,98.0%ni,0.0%id,0.0%wa,1.7%hi,0.0%si,0.0%st
> Cpu3: 0.0%us,0.7%sy,99.3%ni,0.0%id,0.0%wa,0.0%hi,0.0%si,0.0%st
>
> According to what you are saying my load average should be 100.
>   
You're correct, it IS 100 -- but 100%.  Expressed in decimal format, 
this is of course 1.0 -- and as each cpu has this average, 4.0 indicates 
that no threads regularly wait for execution.  This worldcommunitygrid 
you mentioned binds your cpu by design it sounds like.