This doesn't make sense to me, why would there be a load of 5 if there are zero processes in the runq?12:00:01 AM   runq-sz  plist-sz   ldavg-1   ldavg-5  ldavg-1512:05:01 AM         0       708      5.23      5.14      5.1012:15:01 AM         0       708      5.16      5.12      5.0912:25:01 AM         0       708      5.07      5.07      5.0812:35:01 AM         0       708      5.12      5.08      5.0712:45:01 AM         2       708      5.18      5.15      5.0912:55:01 AM         1       708      5.05      5.12      5.0901:05:01 AM         0       708      5.06      5.08      5.0801:15:01 AM         0       708      5.14      5.11      5.09I know iowait is often the culprit for driving up the reported load, but there's very little disk activity,12:00:01 AM       DEV       tps  rd_sec/s  wr_sec/s  avgrq-sz  avgqu-sz     await     svctm     %util12:05:01 AM    dev8-0      1.53      0.00     30.61     20.01      0.00      0.34      0.21      0.0312:15:01 AM    dev8-0      1.32      0.00     25.77     19.51      0.00      0.34      0.10      0.0112:25:01 AM    dev8-0      1.60      0.00     40.81     25.43      0.00      0.64      0.29      0.0512:35:01 AM    dev8-0      1.64      0.00     35.76     21.80      0.00      0.73      0.22      0.0412:45:01 AM    dev8-0      1.33      0.00     25.95     19.51      0.00      0.23      0.12      0.02The box itself is running a django instance and handling about 5 hits/sec.
why would there be a load of 5 if there are zero processes in the runq?
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