I believe it's related.
If you have lots of page faults, you'll have processes wanting to run, 
but just waiting for pages to become valid. I would guess these 
processes counts as active, and thus are included in the load.

	Johnny

Mark Cullen wrote:
> Michael Parson wrote:
> 
>> The fact that you have a high-ish load, with an idle CPU is what
>> concerns me.  You have something that is causing your load queue length
>> to be artificially high.
> 
> 
> Interesting, because my system always hovers around a load average of 
> 1.00, with 100% idle CPU. I was just blaming it on the amount of 
> processes I had running, but maybe it's not this after all?
> 
> NetBSD 3.0.1, but was the same with 3.0.0
> 
> ---
> load averages:  0.94,  0.84,  0.89 08:12:07
> 99 processes:  1 runnable, 97 sleeping, 1 on processor
> CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% 
> idle
> Memory: 102M Act, 54M Inact, 1844K Wired, 20M Exec, 67M File, 6132K Free
> Swap: 1024M Total, 44M Used, 980M Free
> ---
> 
> It's actually quite rare to see it < 1.00. It doesn't seem to really be 
> causing any problems, but I am not running X. If it's worth looking in 
> to then I can post any info needed?
> 

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