Re: Evaluating load average

[Theo de Raadt]

> I'm looking for some hints on evaluating load average.

You can't.  It's a statement about "job queue lengths", not about "how
busy" a machine is.  And since different operating systems (and even
different versions) have made various tweaks to it over the years, it
is essentially a set of values you cannot evaluate the meaning of
according to a fixed sense of rules.