Basic Linux Hardware analysis Notes:

How many php procs are running:  ps -A | grep php-cgi | grep -v grep | wc -l

A box with a 1 minute load average of 6.92 should have been below 2 if it had a 2 cpu core.

To find how many cpu cores there are:

cat /proc/cpuinfo  (or just type cat /proc/cpuinfo| grep processor| wc -l to get how many cpus)

4 processor core would look like

processor : 0

vendor_id : GenuineIntel

<---SNIP--->

processor : 1

vendor_id : GenuineIntel

<---SNIP--->

processor : 2

vendor_id : GenuineIntel