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I've recently noticed an increase in my forum's server load, and I'd just like to make sure the server isn't being overburdened. The forum isn't slow or anything, but I'd prefer to confirm 
My typical load ranges from 0.30 at night (300-400 users) to 1.10 at peak times during the day (700-1000 users). When running server-intensive processes such as mysqldump, the load goes up to somewhere in the 2-4 range.
From what I've read on Wikipedia, load simply expresses the average number of threads over the past x minutes. Is this correct?
My server has a dual quad-core Xeon 'nehalem' processor. Because of this, is the theoretical 100% load 8.00 (or even 16.00 if you factor in hyper-threading/turbo-boost?)?
My typical load ranges from 0.30 at night (300-400 users) to 1.10 at peak times during the day (700-1000 users). When running server-intensive processes such as mysqldump, the load goes up to somewhere in the 2-4 range.
From what I've read on Wikipedia, load simply expresses the average number of threads over the past x minutes. Is this correct?
My server has a dual quad-core Xeon 'nehalem' processor. Because of this, is the theoretical 100% load 8.00 (or even 16.00 if you factor in hyper-threading/turbo-boost?)?
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