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What should load average be?
The general rule of thumb is that the load average shouldn’t exceed the number of processors in the machine. If the number of processors is four, the load should generally stay under 4.0.
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What does a load average of 6.03 mean?
To understand the load average number, you need to know how many CPUs your system has. A load average of 6.03 would indicate a system with a single CPU was massively overloaded, but it would be fine on a computer with 8 CPUs.
Why are Linux system load averages so high?
High load averages imply that a system is overloaded; many processes are waiting for CPU time. We will uncover this in the next section in relation to number of CPU cores. Additionally, we can as well use other well known tools such as top and glances which display a real-time state of a running Linux system, plus many other tools:
What does it mean when CPU load averages are low?
When they are high, above the number of CPU cores, it signifies high demand for the CPUs, and low load averages below the number of CPU cores tells us that CPUs are underutilized. If you liked this article, then do subscribe to email alerts for Linux tutorials.
Why is the load average important to know?
The load average is especially useful on servers and embedded systems. You can glance at it to understand how your system is performing. If it’s overloaded, you may need to deal with a process that’s wasting resources, provide more hardware resources, or move some of the workload to another system.