How to interpret the load average in relate to the CPU utilization
I have a M9000 server and here is the configuration on 1 domain:
System Configuration: Oracle Corporation sun4u SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server System clock frequency: 960 MHz Memory size: 114688 Megabytes
==================================== CPUs ====================================
CPU CPU Run L2$ CPU CPU
LSB Chip ID MHz MB Impl. Mask
--- ---- ---------------------------------------- ---- --- ----- ----
00 0 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 2520 6.0 7 145
01 1 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 2520 6.0 7 145
02 2 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87 2520 6.0 7 145
03 3 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127 2520 6.0 7 145
04 0 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135 2520 6.0 7 161
04 1 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143 2520 6.0 7 161
04 2 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151 2520 6.0 7 161
04 3 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159 2520 6.0 7 161
XSCF> showhardconf -u
SPARC Enterprise M9000; Memory_Size:448 GB;
+-----------------------------------+------------+
| FRU | Quantity |
+-----------------------------------+------------+
| CMU | 8 |
| Type:A; | ( 6) |
| Type:B; | ( 1) |
| Type:C; | ( 1) |
| CPUM | 32 |
| Freq:2.400 GHz; | ( 8) |
| Freq:2.520 GHz; | ( 16) |
| Freq:3.000 GHz; | ( 8) |
| MEM | 208 |
| Type:2A; Size:2 GB; | ( 160) |
| Type:2B; Size:2 GB; | ( 32) |
| Type:4B; Size:4 GB; | ( 16) |
| IOU | 8 |
| Type:A; | ( 8) |
| XSCFU_B | 2 |
| XBU_B | 8 |
| CLKU_B | 2 |