Sometime around Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:48:21 +0000 (GMT), it may be that
Chris Edwards wrote: > Perhaps I'm out of touch, but I'd have thought if you're regularly
> getting load av. in the "tens", then it may be time for some new(er)
> boxes.
Most commonly yes, but there are boxes that cope quite easily with a
load average of 10. For instance I have a 24-core machine where I don't
worry about the load average until it gets to 24 (although in practise
it runs out of I/O bandwidth before then).
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