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     Re: I don't get it   
     By: Gamgee to nelgin on Mon Jun 23 2025 07:52 am   
      
   Howdy,   
      
    >  > top - 02:53:43 up 27 days, 12:08,  1 user,  load average: 60.40, 26.47,   
    >   
    >  > 124% cpu is nothing unusual. I have 4 cpus. There's no real reason for   
    >  > the system to behitting a 60 load average.   
    >   
    > With 4 CPUs, a load average of 4.0 indicates that all 4 CPUs are at 100%   
    > capacity.  The 60 indicates that there are a *LOT* of process waiting for   
    > their turn in the queue for CPU attention.  It's almost not possible to be   
    > that overloaded.  Better check the cooling system on those CPUs...   
      
   Actually not completely accurate.   
      
   The load average is a measure of processes who "didnt" get the CPU when they   
   were scheduled to use it. Its possible to have load average above number of   
   CPUs, because of other reasons - the most common I've seen is disk I/O (and   
   the CPU's could be fairly idle).   
      
   Given your swap is full, and your memory utilisation is high, I'm guessing   
   your system is thrashing - spending too much time swapping memory pages in and   
   out (for the processes that want to run), only to swap them back out again   
   when that processes time is up - causing that process (or the next one) to   
   miss it's CPU time slot.   
      
   Your load average can also climb high because of disk errors, where the kernel   
   spends too much time on a blocked read (I/O error), and thus scheduled   
   processes miss their slot.   
      
      
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