Picture of the day

Just spotted this during my evening check, thought it might be fun to post.

Proof that the load average isn’t necessarily limited to the amount of cores… nor even to 3 times that: the computer is a 6 core Opteron 4174 HE (Lisbon).

Text version? (sorry, didn’t manage to catch one that high):

top - 00:09:50 up 1 day, 10:02,  1 user,  load average: 20.48, 18.38, 18.03
Tasks: 268 total,  10 running, 258 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  3.2%us,  5.3%sy, 89.9%ni,  0.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  1.4%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  16461568k total, 16360988k used,   100580k free,   437928k buffers
Swap: 20477944k total,    99972k used, 20377972k free,  9237988k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
30033 mjnew3    30  10  172m 148m 6748 R   61  0.9   0:35.00 mono
28955 mjnew4    30  10  228m 203m 6644 R   42  1.3   1:26.99 mono
29635 mjnew2    30  10  178m 151m 6632 R   39  0.9   0:53.26 mono
29321 mjnew7    30  10  171m 125m 6708 R   39  0.8   1:08.93 mono
30058 mjnew1    30  10  146m 126m 6652 R   37  0.8   0:32.10 mono
30429 mjnew6    30  10 97916  75m 6600 R   35  0.5   0:10.12 mono
30355 mjnew8    30  10  129m 105m 7172 R   34  0.7   0:16.95 mono
29024 mjnew9    30  10  188m 164m 6632 R   32  1.0   1:21.37 mono
31578 mjnew8    30  10 1072m 666m 8860 S   32  4.1  72:30.70 mono
30526 mjnew5    30  10 80480  58m 6444 S   32  0.4   0:05.93 mono
 2657 mjnew9    30  10  751m 546m 8804 S   21  3.4  74:17.89 mono
30211 mjnew3    30  10  628m 423m 9204 S   20  2.6  57:29.68 mono
  645 mjnew7    30  10  720m 466m 8864 S   18  2.9 145:05.25 mono
 9094 mjnew2    30  10  746m 505m 9052 R   17  3.1 108:43.22 mono
14730 mjnew4    30  10  464m 362m 9088 S   17  2.3  17:19.03 mono
 8670 mjnew1    30  10  786m 521m 8744 S   16  3.2 109:02.06 mono
18787 mjnew6    30  10  774m 511m 9064 S   16  3.2 182:14.48 mono

One more (a bit lower):