As far as I can tell, this article doesn't mention the most frequent problem people have comprehending high load averages on Linux: the inclusion of processes i

As far as I can tell, this article doesn't mention the most frequent problem people have comprehending high load averages on Linux: the inclusion of processes in uninterruptible sleep. This can result in a system with virtually no CPU load reporting a very high load average. (And, IMHO, makes the load average much less useful a metric than a pure running/run-queue-based method.)