Originally Posted by byronm

Load average is a simplistic view of the resource utilization based on scaled cpu usage. For example if you have a 1 cpu system and a load of 1.5 then you have .5 of your processes in waiting for cpu. If you have a 16 cpu server and a load of 5 then you have 11 cpu's idling. It is all relative and highly dependant of your configuration, but .20 is nothing to wory about. Basically idle