Quoting Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>:
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>
> I have a machine running web server. It has a lot of httpd's loaded and
> most of them are sleeping. The load average is always around 7-13, so I
> wonder why the CPU usage doesn't reach ~100%. It wastes CPU time or
> simply there is something top does not show ?
>
>
AFAIK, load is not strictly a function of CPU usage - it's actually the amount of processes that have to
wait for time on a CPU (??) and can be directly influenced by various other stuff like IRQs, disk usage,
peripheral load etc... so you might want to look at something more informative - like vmstat
Mike
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