Re: mosmon load indicator

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:17:22PM +0000, Tomasz Koziara wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have been using a 9-node openMosix
> cluster for a while now (2.4.22, Mandrake)
> but only recently noticed, probably
> trivial to explain discrepancy:
> 
> I run an app, say on the master node,
> and it occupies 99% of CPU (according
> to top/mtop) (it's an dense
> algebraic operation intensive code),
> but still 'mosmon' indicates the
> load on the level of 45 %.

 Look at the manpage mon(1).  The "yardstick" mosmon uses isn't based on the
speed of the CPU in your machine.  It's trying to show you an absolute
measure of how much computation is happening, I guess.

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