[rhn-users] system load average and top

[DE <deks sbcglobal net>]

Hi, I'm currently having some weird readings on my machine. Here's the output of top.

10:54am  up 42 days, 14:28,  2 users,  load average: 15.73, 14.17, 16.45
284 processes: 279 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  5.9% user, 14.1% system,  0.0% nice, 79.9% idle
Mem:   514696K av,  473584K used,   41112K free,       0K shrd,   91628K buff
Swap: 1048088K av,   25280K used, 1022808K free       104152K cached

Does this makes sense? The CPU has no load and yet the load average is high? Any ideas?

Thanks for any info.

 

Deks