What is the correlation (in %) of CPU core vs CPU load ?

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Issue

  • How is load average computed?
  • What is the correlation (in terms of %) of CPU core vs CPU load?
  • What is the safe limit of CPU load?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

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