when does the load average goes below 0.8

[vickey_20]

I read the man pages of batch and it says that commands or scripts scheduled using the batch command will only execute when the load average goes below 0.8. As a newbie I hardy understand what it means. Does it mean that the system resources are busy?
Ans since I want to see the o/p of the commands I have set using batch, is there any way i can bring the sys load average below 0.8?

[GNU-Fan]

Yes, it means the system was being busy 80% of the time in the last minute.

[vickey_20]

so it means the when the load avg goes below 0.8 then the system is being used more and more i.e above 80%. It souds a little wired shouldn't it be this way " when avg load is 0.8 then 80% sys resources are used and when it goes down so does the used resources"

[GNU-Fan]

Think of it this way:
When the system is not (too) busy, it accepts a new additional task.
When the system is busy, it does not accept new tasks and queues them for later, when it has more time,