But all is not as it appears. The Wizard behind the Curtain The load-average calculation is best thought of as a moving average of processes in Linux's run queue marked running or uninterruptible. The ...

Under Linux, CPU usage is reported as a series of three decimals like the following result of the ‘uptime’ command: The first decimal represents the average CPU load over the past minute.

I have numerous systems running kernel 2.2.16-22 (RedHat 7.0), that have ALL exhibited very odd load average figures ... is not running on another Linux system I have remote access to, so off ...