Comment on How to auto-reboot if CPU load too high?
cron@feddit.de 8 months ago
Just as a side note, the load factor can also mean that processes are limited by IO:
Unix systems traditionally just counted processes waiting for the CPU, but Linux also counts processes waiting for other resources – for example, processes waiting to read from or write to the disk.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I would assume that wouldn’t cause so much contention that the system is unusable, though, right? Unless they’re busy waiting.