Does loadavg affect the CPU usage?
Say I see a process consuming 60% of CPU time, both when loadavg (last minute) was 5 and 1, would it be the same?
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Say I see a process consuming 60% of CPU time, both when loadavg (last minute) was 5 and 1, would it be the same?
Load average is a calculation of the average number of processes is the CPU's runnable queue. Having a high load average doesn't necessarily mean high CPU usage, since the processes could be waiting on I/O. Higher loads due require the CPU to do more context switching.