Hello all,

Could you please let me know.. what should be the server load?

This is wat i see in my control panel : 3.20, 3.56, 2.92

Rgds,

Depend on what kind of CPU do you have from your server?

We're talking *nix here??

I generally hear that 1 per CPU is a good count. For example, 2 CPU's = your server load shouldn't go over 2 frequently. 4 CPU's = your server load shouldn't go over 4 frequently. 1 core counts as a CPU here.

Incase you don't already know, those 3 comma seperate figures are each a load figure taken over a different time period. I think it's 1 minute, 5minutes and 15 minutes - though I'm not completely sure on that.

Remember though, it's always best to wait for the experts to give you a real guidance ;) I'm just telling you what I understand as good figures, from what I've been told. :)

Thanks buddy!

It also depends on what type of load is causing that. For example, I've seen a server with a dual core p4 handle loads of 5 with no performance hit to the sites it was hosting. That server was only doing web. It also depends on the CPU usage, memory usage, and IO usage. If there is a bottleneck there, the load will go up and you're more likely to have a bottleneck.

The more important aspect is if you feel your site is loading slow or perfomance is dropping.
However I would be concerned with loads like that if its on anything with less than 2 cores. Even with 2 cores thats high if its like that for the majority of the time.

As said - it depends on the hardware setup of the server. I know a customer of mine runs his server with a load of around 10 (running one site), and 99% of the time the site runs fine. His server is a single Celeron 2GHz!