reading load status

[Bit Takeshi]

Hello all,

How we read "load average" in load Load Service? I got
noticed( see below) but don't know what "soft" and "hard"
mean. I just think "0.04, 0.39, 0.27" is not-that-bad
load.

Please give me some advices.

Thank you in advance.

#########################################
02-24-2005 03:07:50	Service Alert	linux1	LOAD	OK	SOFT	OK -
load average: 0.44, 0.58, 0.28
02-24-2005 03:07:00	Service Alert	linux1	LOAD	WARNING	SOFT
WARNING - load average: 1.12, 0.71, 0.30
02-24-2005 03:05:50	Service Alert	linux1	LOAD	WARNING	SOFT
WARNING - load average: 1.18, 0.62, 0.24
02-23-2005 03:10:50	Service Alert	linux1	LOAD	OK	HARD	OK -
load average: 0.04, 0.39, 0.27
02-23-2005 03:05:50	Service Alert	linux1	LOAD	WARNING	HARD
WARNING - load average: 1.29, 0.67, 0.26
02-23-2005 03:04:50	Service Alert	linux1	LOAD	WARNING	SOFT
WARNING - load average: 1.15, 0.52, 0.19
02-23-2005 03:03:50	Service Alert	linux1	LOAD	WARNING	SOFT
WARNING - load average: 1.02, 0.36, 0.13
###########################

My system:
Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
Nagios 2.0b2
Mem:  1054822400 1037209600 17612800        0 179134464
700030976
Swap: 2089209856 108093440 1981116416
MemTotal:      1030100 kB
CPU: (Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz)x4.




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