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How is load average calculated on osx? It seems too high - and how do I analyze it?

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An advanced question: I think my load averages are too high as compared to a linux system. I have around 0.40 1min with basically no cpu use (0-1%) and even if this is spread out over 4 cores it still equals roughly 0.10 = 10% cpu use which isn't correct. I've now learned that load average takes no…

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The load is the average number of runnable processes. says: The getloadavg() function returns the number of processes in the system run queue averaged over various periods of time. Up to nelem samples are retrieved and assigned to successive element…

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