The point of the last two lectures
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
2:39 PM
The point of the last two lectures
The customer defines an SLA which -- together with time to deployment -- determines the high watermark Wsafe.
The load average defines the low watermark Lsufficient, as a load average of 1 unit per core (everybody busy, on average, and no one waiting). 
In practice, we guess about the value of Lsafe!