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It also depends a lot on software design.
Some software pushes load averages much harder than others, while accomplishing the same task in the same time.
I have seen some webservers at a 100+ load average running apache, fairly efficiently, move to thttpd, with a load average of 0.5, and still accomplish the exact same goal.
Load average is not a good way of checking server health, in and of itself.
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