Hi folks,
Not sure where to put this question.
I installed Pi-hole onto a Raspberry Pi Zero W and it's working GREAT! I'm just curious what the numbers mean in the Load below Status.
Mine is currently showing Load: 0.03 0.11 0.13
but I have no idea what that means.
Thanks,
Hi,
you will find many informations when you log in in Pi-hole and click on help 
Load: load averages for the last minute, 5 minutes and 15 minutes, respectively. A load average of 1 reflects the full workload of a single processor on the system. We show a red icon if the current load exceeds the number of available processors on this machine (which is 4)
This is just the output of the uptime
command.
"Load" is the unix/linux system load averages, by default they are from Left to right: 1 Minute, 5 Minutes and 15 Minutes. The "load" system in Linux takes into account many factors, but it's safe to say as a rule of thumb that as long as the major number (before the .) is below the number of threads/cores of your device, that you should see smooth sailing (so for a Pi 3B+ anything below 4.00 is good,) this is of course a guideline, not a solid fact, your device could be "loaded" to 15.00 and still be responsive if it's graphics system are being heavily used but the rest of the system is more-or-less idle
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