On Mon, 7 May 2018, Johannes Weiner wrote: > What to make of this number? If CPU utilization is at 100% and CPU > pressure is 0, it means the system is perfectly utilized, with one > runnable thread per CPU and nobody waiting. At two or more runnable > tasks per CPU, the system is 100% overcommitted and the pressure > average will indicate as much. From a utilization perspective this is > a great state of course: no CPU cycles are being wasted, even when 50% > of the threads were to go idle (and most workloads do vary). From the > perspective of the individual job it's not great, however, and they > might do better with more resources. Depending on what your priority > is, an elevated "some" number may or may not require action. This looks awfully similar to loadavg. Problem is that loadavg gets screwed up by tasks blocked waiting for I/O. Isnt there some way to fix loadavg instead?
