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by 5e92cb50239222b 1702 days ago
Tangentially related: modern kernels have a much better metric (PSI, or pressure stall information)

https://lwn.net/Articles/759781/

https://lwn.net/Articles/775971/

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Well, that's still an aggregated value that someone decided to calculate based on what they thought would work best for what they're looking for. It's not necessarily more a correct definition of load, just one that is more appropriately actionable for the problems it's designed for.

In other words, PSI is "better" for some definition of "better".