The system load threshold range for Linux servers
The load average is the average system load on a Linux server for a defined period of time. In other words, it is the CPU demand of a server that includes sum of the running and the waiting threads. The server load threshold value should be between 0 to 50.
Examples:
- If the capacity of your processor is 1000 instructions per second and there are 1000 instructions waiting to be executed, the server load is 1.
- A server load of 2 means there are twice the number of instructions than the processor can handle at a time.
So, ideally, for critical servers, the server load should not exceed 1 for a single core processor.
Read our blog to know more on load average and how to determine if your server has sufficient load capacity.
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