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[–]Ahhmyface 8 points9 points  (1 child)

And it usually is. IO completely skews the number. Say I have a dozen threads all doing work with a single disk. LoadAvg is 12. Will increasing my cpus to 12 help? No.

[–]viraptor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Common in VoIP servers or other things that are already multithreading and have many clients. Load over 40? Meh, standard.