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Display load average normalized according to the number of CPU cores
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Description

Linux load average is calculated from the number of processes that are either using the CPU or waiting for resources. Since on multi-core machines there can be many processes using CPUs at the same time, load average can go beyond "100%'

The most annoying part is that looking just at load averages give the viewer little idea how bad the load really is, since a "200%" load can be a single-core machine heavily overloaded, a dual-core machine at its full capacity, or a quad-core machine with 50% of its capacity still available.

Diving all load averages by the number of physical CPU cores should make the numbers much more informative, especially to people who don't have much Linux experience and aren't used to that quirk.

Details

Difficulty level
Unknown (require assessment)
Version
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Why the issue appeared?
Will be filled on close
Is it a breaking change?
Behavior change
Issue type
Improvement (missing useful functionality)