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From: "michael chang" <thenewme91@gmail.com>
To: "Mike Galbraith" <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH] sched: staircase deadline misc fixes
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On 3/29/07, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
> Rereading to make sure I wasn't unclear anywhere...
>
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 07:50 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > I don't see what a < 95% load really means.
>
> Egad.  Here I'm pondering the numbers and light load as I'm typing, and
> my fingers (seemingly independent when mind wanders off) typed < 95% as
> in not fully committed, instead of "light".

While I don't know the _exact_ figure for this, my hunch is that a
good ballpark figure is anything that is not a heavy load (less than
4, perhaps even lower, maybe <0.75 or <2?) and that is not a "niced"
load.

-- 
-- Michael Chang
~Just the crazy copy cat~