How to interpret Rackspace server diagnostics?

Posted by Ben on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Ben
Published on 2011-01-14T14:11:21Z Indexed on 2011/01/14 14:55 UTC
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We've been having some trouble lately with our site timing out during times of high traffic.

We're working on a number of things to resolve it. During this process I came across our server diagnostics page on Rackspace, and it has the following line:

The host server's load is: 0.08 0.08 0.03 1/204 2437

I couldn't find an explanation on their site or Google. Can anyone explain what these numbers mean? For I am a lowly programmer.

Much appreciated,

-Ben

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