Monitorable network and CPU load statistics and their application to scheduling

Analysis of Load Average and its Relationship to Program Run Time on Networks of Workstations

“…Preliminary research reveals that software implementation of an unobtrusive network load monitor is nontrivial. In addition, application response to network load is highly nonlinear, eliminating the possibility of deriving a simple relationship through linear regression [6].…”

“…linear regression to determine the relationship between load average and run time. Additional details may be found in Meyer [6].…”