#uptime
9:06AM  up  6:14, 12 users, load averages: 25.39, 13.19, 9.55

I would think that CPU is under 100% when load=15.58 . But it is not:

#top -S

last pid: 17095; load averages: 13.26, 11.20, 8.57 up 0+06:12:25 09:04:27
514 processes: 3 running, 490 sleeping, 1 zombie, 20 waiting
CPU states: 16.1% user, 0.0% nice, 1.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, 82.1% idle
Mem: 1406M Active, 272M Inact, 247M Wired, 70M Cache, 112M Buf, 8380K Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

 PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K RUN 0 214:21 43.70% idle: cpu0 10 root 1 171 52 0K 8K RUN 1 282:08 34.28% idle: cpu1 21 root 1 -68 -187 0K 8K WAIT 1 2:15 2.05% irq19: myk0 uhci3 16480 timea 1 97 0 34376K 17628K select 0 0:03 1.81% wnck-applet
14813 kornel        1  96    0 34376K 27384K select 0   0:20  1.12% skype
17095 root          1  96    0  3104K  2324K CPU1   1   0:00  1.00% top
16443 timea         1  96    0 17304K 12560K select 1   0:03  0.98% metacity
12 root 1 -44 -163 0K 8K WAIT 1 1:21 0.88% swi1: net
16550 timea         1  97    0 41760K 37284K select 0   0:15  0.73% wish8.4
2317 zsolt         1  96    0 29680K 22344K select 1   3:13  0.59% skype
3450 szgabor       1  96    0 28344K 21484K select 1   2:56  0.49% skype

The most strange is that "last pid" is almost constant, about 1 process started per second.

So how it is possible that "top -S" tells "82% idle" but "load" tells 15.58 ?

Thanks,

  Laszlo

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