On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 04:24:19PM -0200, Carlos Henrique Reimer wrote: > processors. vmstat r column "run queue" usually indicates values higher > than 2 and less than 5 but "Load Average" values from top, sar -q and other > commands show always values less than 1. > > Should not these values be higher than 16 on a box with 16 processors to > confirm a CPU constraint? If you have single-threaded processes then that process could chew up 100% of a single core but not be able to run any faster. The load average would only be 1. Load average is a poor measure; look at %idle on each core. If you see one core with 0% idle then something is maxed out. -- rgds Stephen