I see the following load on one of our serversload average: 2.08, 2.09, 2.03Is it too much and should be handled or can I just leave it? The server is a backup server with no direct usage, it should just run in the background. Running top I see that some of our own processes are the hogs. top - 09:37:53 up 97 days, 11:01,  1 user,  load average: 1.93, 2.04, 2.01Tasks:  97 total,   4 running,  93 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombieCpu(s):  27.7% user,  72.3% system,   0.0% nice,   0.0% idleMem:    515468k total,   457544k used,    57924k free,    47684k buffersSwap:   401584k total,    21372k used,   380212k free,   309444k cached      PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                11873 root      18   0  2784 2004 1984 R 49.7  0.4 425616:43 store_ss7_stats          969 root      18   0  2784 2004 1984 R 49.3  0.4 428211:12 store_ss7_stats            1 root       8   0   488  460  436 S  0.0  0.1   0:36.93 init                       2 root       9   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:10.43 keventd                    3 root      19  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:06.97 ksoftirqd_CPU0             4 root       9   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:32.55 kswapd                     5 root       9   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 bdflush                    6 root       9   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.23 kupdated                   8 root       9   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  22:44.93 kjournald                665 root       9   0   640  632  532 S  0.0  0.1 145:39.35 syslogd                  668 root       9   0   544  448  408 S  0.0  0.1   6:31.40 klogd                    672 postgres   8   0   916  756  704 S  0.0  0.1   0:16.70 postmaster               697 postgres   9   0  2000  828  812 S  0.0  0.2   0:02.20 postmaster               698 postgres   9   0  1060  892  760 S  0.0  0.2   0:02.13 postmaster               706 Debian-e   8   0   928  708  668 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.02 exim4                    711 root       9   0   404  360  360 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 inetd                    720 root       9   0  1364 1132 1096 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.03 sshd                     724 daemon     9   0   632  556  540 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 atd                
Load > 2, does it matter?
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