What does high workload mean to you?

High load is a system state where it experiences a significant number of requests or operations, approaching or exceeding its design or current processing capabilities.

For me, high load is characterized by the following signs:

• Increased response times of services or applications.
• Resource usage (CPU, memory, disk, network) close to 100%.
• Errors or timeouts due to overload.
• Slowing down of task or queue processing.

For example, if a web application typically processes 100 requests per second with a 100 ms delay, and at 1000 requests the delay increases to several seconds with errors appearing, this is a sign of high load. It is important to monitor and scale the system to handle such situations.