<div dir="ltr">It is not a percentage.<br><br><a href="http://www.luv.asn.au/overheads/NJG_LUV_2002/luvSlides.html">http://www.luv.asn.au/overheads/NJG_LUV_2002/luvSlides.html</a><br><br>Simply put the load is how much calculator power your box is doing. I have seen servers that have a value of several hundred load on a day to day basis.<br>
<br>The biggest reason for it being monitored is to watch what is usual and when you see a spike, ascend, descend, etc, you have a history to compare it to. This value will be different for nearly every single server.<br>
<br clear="all">Josh Luthman<br>Office: 937-552-2340<br>Direct: 937-552-2343<br>1100 Wayne St<br>Suite 1337<br>Troy, OH 45373<br><br>Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.<br>--- Henry Spencer<br>
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<p>I am getting pages from my hobbit server when some of my
linux systems are hitting 15 on their load avg. does that equate to something
worse than it sounds? Cause 15% load average on a linux system does not seem
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