Question Meaning of different units in health monitor

[Bitpalast]

In the Health Monitor extension detail charts we are seeing different units on the ordinate for Apache load, Nginx load, mail load, MySQL load and Plesk load. The units (symbols) are:

k
m
no symbol [none]

Should not k be x1000 and m x1000000? However, we we doubt that the system has measured a 5000.0 index on CPU load when it displays "5.0 k", or 200 million load index on mail load when the chart displays "200 m", 2 million load index on Plesk load for "2.0 m" and so on ... All of our hosts have a low load only, so why are the charts showing such high numbers?

What is the true meaning of these ordinate abbreviations?

 

[Bitpalast]

*lightbulb* The "m" is not "Mega", but "milli", so 500 m = 0.5, 450 m = 0.45 and so on.

k still pending. Indeed it looks as this means "kilo" as expected. But than the question is why for rare and short moments the load is measured excessively and unrealistically high while the server is operating trouble-free?