Understanding "load"

Hi,

How is "load" calculated? ( On Linux )

What's a typically high/medium/low value? Does it work like that? Is it simply a percentage?

With 1.1 load at the moment I know im fine, but I want to be able to analyse things as load increases so i'm ahead of any problems!

It sounds like quite a newbie question, but google gives no answers as it's not an easy thing to search for, and in 5 years of working in commercial unix load has never been a problem!

Thanks!
Dan

 

 

 

 

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