Today, Giuliano Pochini gleaned this insight:
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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 ?
You probably have a bunch of processes waiting on I/O. Try
ps aux |grep ' D[W]* '
and you'll probabaly see a number of processes vaguely similar to your
load average.
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