Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Server Load Question...

Load average really isn't that useful a number.  You want the cpu idle % to know how idle your machine is.  The sysstat command will tell you:# sysstat 1time              CPU    %user    %nice  %system    %idle13:10:09          all      0.00      0.00      1.00    99.00If you look carefully at the definition of load average, it doesn't accurately reflect how busy your CPU is.  I system could have a load average of 20 and still not have its CPUs saturated.