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Load average greater than number of CPUs

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Why load average is greater than number of cores CPUs? But, htop command is not showing which process are using so much CPU load average.

current load average

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kr flag
Yes, the load can be larger than your number of CPUs available. And yes, htop DOES show them, see the lower 4 lines in your screenshot. I guess these are sorted by CPU usage.
jp flag
LA is affected by blocking I/O and you have at least two processes with `D` state (blocked on I/O).
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cn flag
Please tag your question with the operating system in question. Load average implementation various between OSes, and performance related tools are very different.
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Linux load average is a number equal to the number of the running processes plus a number of processes ready to run and waiting for available CPU plus the number of processes in uninterruptible state (usually blocked on disk I/O). See Brendan Gregg article Linux Load Averages for more details.

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