Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > I'm looking for some hints on evaluating load average. > > You can't. It's a statement about "job queue lengths", not about "how > busy" a machine is. And since different operating systems (and even > different versions) have made various tweaks to it over the years, it > is essentially a set of values you cannot evaluate the meaning of > according to a fixed sense of rules.
Translation: It's like measuring traffic flow by the length of a traffic jam. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
