Serverload ?

[Gomjaba]

What can I read / understand from a serverload ?

When I get

Server Loads: average: 0.28, 0.21, 0.18 0.28 : 0.21 What does it say exactly ?

[Lats]

They represent the number of active processes at a given time broken down by past 1, 5 & 15 minutes. You have a 4th number which I haven't seen before.

Anything below 1 is very good, as your numbers show.

[Gomjaba]

Ah, ok, thanks
Maybe the average (4th)

[Joshs]

Anything below 1 is very good, as your numbers show.

Actually depends on the number of processors and some other factors.

[XtAzY]

hmmm dam i have these loads

1.43 1.63 1.64

[Zachery]

Again, these numbers worse /better depending on the numbers of processors in the server. For a single processor server, this machine would be fairly well loaded. For a dual processor system, it would be at about half capacity.

[XtAzY]

so for a forum with high serverloads, what's the average numbers? is it a 5?

[Joshs]

so for a forum with high serverloads, what's the average numbers? is it a 5?

Once again depends on the number of processors in the system and some other factors. Some servers will will nicely at that load and others will not.

[encryption]

While an important factor, CPU Load (shown by those numbers) isn't the only determinant for how heavy a forum is on a server (especially if you're on a dedicated box). Real world performance is critical.... if the server is well configured, you could have a load up to 10 but if your Forums are performing flawlessly (i.e. you dont see them slowing down when moving around subforums, posting, etc), there's no reason to think the server is dying on you..... unless the high load numbers psychologically bug the hell out of you where you run and open a ticket to have services optimized and you "drop" the load numbers (which might / might not help depending on how your server has been setup).