cpu load

[usa ims]

I just got a critical on a system saying that my load was critical:

But it is not under load:

top - 10:33:08 up 37 days, 23:20,  0 users,  load average: 0.88, 0.79, 0.73
Tasks: 390 total,   1 running, 389 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.0%us,  0.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.4%id,  0.1%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  74377396k total,  6224692k used, 68152704k free,   661256k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,  2117028k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
19487 www-data  15  -5  451m 202m  12m S    2  0.3  44:12.04 mono               
19490 www-data  15  -5  449m 195m  12m S    2  0.3  37:49.91 mono               
19499 www-data  15  -5  451m 199m  12m S    2  0.3  44:15.72 mono               
19508 www-data  15  -5  442m 199m  12m S    2  0.3  43:58.24 mono               
19513 www-data  15  -5  442m 202m  12m S    2  0.3  44:07.38 mono               
19514 www-data  15  -5  451m 199m  12m S    2  0.3  44:02.62 mono               
19515 www-data  15  -5  515m 196m  12m S    2  0.3  44:03.74 mono               
19516 www-data  15  -5  508m 199m  12m S    2  0.3  44:07.35 mono               
19517 www-data  15  -5  453m 198m  12m S    2  0.3  43:52.04 mono               
29604 hobbit    20   0 10940 1344  824 R    2  0.0   0:00.03 top  

So in my localcient.cfg, I changed the load on cpu to 'LOAD    50.0 55.0'

Was that a good idea?

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DEFAULT
        # These are the built-in defaults.
        UP      1h
        LOAD    50.0 55.0
        DISK    * 90 95
        MEMPHYS 100 101
        MEMSWAP 50 80
        MEMACT  90 97