f9: question on load average

[Dario Lesca <d lesca solinos it>]

Hello! Why on this system the value of load average is so Higt?

> top - 10:42:27 up 3 days, 16:22,  1 user,  load average: 5.08, 5.05, 5.01
> Tasks: 166 total,   1 running, 165 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu0  :  0.0%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Cpu1  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Cpu2  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Cpu3  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Mem:   2074912k total,  2014468k used,    60444k free,       40k buffers
> Swap:  3571704k total,       60k used,  3571644k free,  1826260k cached

On other system when the CPUs are 100% idle, the load average is 0,00 0,00 0,00

Thanks for reply.

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Dario Lesca <d lesca solinos it>