I always assumed that came from the same source that 'top' pulls from.
If I am correct then the number represents the workload of your system. In simplified terms you want this number to always be less than the number of processor cores in your system. If you have a quad core system and you have a system load of 3.00 then you are effectively running 3 of your cores at 100%. If in a quad core system you have a value of 8.00 this means that you have overloaded your system and there are 4 processes waiting while 4 other processes are fully utilizing all the cores on your system. Here is a bit more explanation if your interested. http://www.howtogeek.com/194642/understanding-the-load-average-on-linux-and-other-unix-like-systems/ TL;DR: the load score should always be less than the number of logical cores in your system, if its not then your system is overworked and you need to do something about it. Jake Sallee Godfather of Bandwidth System Engineer University of Mary Hardin-Baylor WWW.UMHB.EDU 900 College St. Belton, Texas 76513 Fone: 254-295-4658 Phax: 254-295-4221 ________________________________ From: Tim DeNike <tim.den...@mcc.edu> Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 2:11 PM To: packetfence-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PacketFence-users] Server Load metric 2.0 concurrently active processes. Represents Unix load average. If you are multicore, 2.0 is really nothing to worry about. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 9, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Torry, Andrew <andrew.to...@fxplus.ac.uk<mailto:andrew.to...@fxplus.ac.uk>> wrote: Can anyone enlighten me as to what the vertical scale on the 'Server Load' graph represents. I am really not sure if I should worry about a server load above 2.0 or not. Is it about to break or what? Andrew ----------------------------- Falmouth Exeter Plus ----------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list PacketFence-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:PacketFence-users@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list PacketFence-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
