Server load average high or overloaded?

[leoteoh]

I am running Python script with threading on the server recently. But I wanted to know that is the server load average is high or in normal situation?

Server Spec

• 8 Cores
• 8GB RAM

top - 09:32:19 up 14 min, 1 user, load average: 4.66, 4.57, 3.50 Tasks: 155 total, 1 running, 154 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 36.5 us, 7.9 sy, 0.0 ni, 55.5 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0st KiB Mem : 8167532 total, 7013784 free, 836692 used, 317056 buff/cache KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free, 0 used. 7081508 avail Mem

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello @leoteoh,

Here's a useful URL that explains what exactly the load average means:

Understanding load average vs. cpu usage

Additionally, the following threads offers some advice on how you can further examine the resource usage on the server beyond just checking the load average:

Troubleshooting high server loads on Linux servers

Thank you.