What is a good load average?

There's no magic number for load average as it'll depend highly on your set up, but most people like to stay around 70-75% load average to CPU. So with your numbers you'd probably want to keep your load average below 60.

How to calculate load average?

Usually, the system calculates this metric by averaging the number of active and waiting tasks over the past 1, 5, or 15 minutes. A high Load Average number indicates that the system has a higher number of tasks being processed or waiting in the queue. As such, this metric signals higher usage of the CPU resources.

What is the htop load average?

htop displays the load average at the top right corner, indicating the average system load over different time intervals. A load average close to the number of CPU cores is considered acceptable. Spikes or consistently high values may indicate a resource bottleneck.

Is 1 minute load average too high?

Load average for 1 minute is 5x higher than CPU cores count, so it can be considered as high. In the tasks field, everything is simple – '116 running' means that there are 116 tasks in the 'R' state, that's a bit too much. So, we can make a conclusion that processes are stacking up and processing too slow.

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