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Old 01-13-2011, 09:41 PM  
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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam View Post
BTW, 1min 5min 15 min are the load average .04 1.20 2.30 representations you see in top or uptime ... So, the answer is "how long is a rope?"

The more CPU's or CPU cores that you have the higher load you can tolerate ...

Interesting reading, see: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9001 and
http://overclockedtech.com/?p=257
that makes sense to me, thank you.

Thanks for everyone else responded maturely.
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