[Lula] system load averages

[Dan Kegel]

On 4/8/07, Steve Glasser <steve at fpig.net> wrote:
> Both 'top' and 'uptime' produce numbers for system load averages at
> one, five and fifteen minutes.  I've read a bunch of stuff about
> system load averages but it seems vague and contradictory.  What
> numbers would actually indicate that the system cpu was overloaded?

Anything higher than the total number of cpu cores.
So a dual CPU system should never show a load average over 2.0.
If it does, it means that more jobs are running than there is CPU for.