queries and server load ???

[glo]

What is considered average, normal, and excessive levels for the number of queries and server load???

Thanks in advance.

[Xenon]

well, that depends on the page and the script normal is around 10 - 15 queries, but if you're on some special places (for example posting a new post) it could be more as well

if you get a value over 30 then you could say that's overaverage, but also there are some places where that ammount is needed

[VBDev]

The ammount of queries isn't really representative of the server and time load ...
A big and complex query could be really longer to be ran than 2-3 or 3 simple queries for exemple

[filburt1]

Ideal server load: 0.00
Good shared server load (single processor): 0.30
Starting to be bad server load (single processor): 1.00
Starting to be painful server load (single processor): 2.00

Dual processors affect the load representation (I think double the max values, so 2.00 would start to be bad).