User Load Average - What does it mean ?

[misty]

awww the links just advertising...

No, not just advertising... those are recommended
zencart webhosts.. i.e their servers are high quality
and configured correctly for zencart.

[Mal2869]

My hosting company tells me this.

Are you referring to the server housing darkrealmfox? If so, this server is
effectively an 8 processor box, so the load you are showing approximates at load of
0.75 on a single processor server (where 1 is considered full utilization).

Perhaps not so bad after all ?


Anyone know because i really know nothing about servers.

[Steven300]

If what your hosting company has said is correct, it sounds like your server is actually better than the one Misty is on.

[Mal2869]

Its still a big if.

Waiting to hear back after i asked for more information.

[Mal2869]

Well my web host company says this.

A load average of 1 on a box with a single processor can be high, but the machine
your site is running on has 8 total processors. A load of 8 on an 8-processor
machine is equivalent to a load of 1 on a single-processor machine. With the load
at 5.5, this is equivalent to roughly .7, and is well under "high load" status.

So i guess i have got a really good server as its often 3.25 to 3.50 which is even lower than 0.7.

[Steven300]

Yes, seems you chose wisely.