[Labs-l] Launching jobs, any limit?

[Marc-André Pelletier]

On 05/26/2014 11:03 AM, Petr Bena wrote:
> I don't even think that the load can be trusted in case of labs

As a rule, "load" is a very imprecise metric to begin with; what it
measures is "how many processes are ready to run now", which only hints
at actual resource contention.  This isn't specific to labs, though it's
made sallient there because of the highly dynamic nature of what's
running on the VMs.  (A workstation, by contrast, has a fairly static
list of things that are continually running with only a few "real work"
apps in active use at any one time, most of them interactive).

In other words, don't worry overmuch about apparent load.  :-)

-- Marc