2012.06.13 Smythies: Top showing Reported load averages and data to calculate
it manually.

.997 * 8 = 7.97 actual load

Note: the 15 minute reported load average is still lagging behind.

top - 21:22:01 up 22:53,  4 users,  load average: 8.00, 7.99, 7.75
Tasks: 144 total,   9 running, 135 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  : 99.7%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  : 99.7%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu2  : 99.7%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu3  : 99.7%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu4  : 99.3%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu5  : 99.3%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu6  : 99.3%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu7  : 99.7%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   7956184k total,  1093384k used,  6862800k free,   345772k buffers
Swap:  8294396k total,        0k used,  8294396k free,   386956k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 4743 doug      20   0  4156   92    0 R   99  0.0  31:43.75 waiter
 4744 doug      20   0  4156   92    0 R   99  0.0  31:43.22 waiter
 4746 doug      20   0  4156   92    0 R   99  0.0  31:43.77 waiter
 4747 doug      20   0  4156   92    0 R   99  0.0  31:42.88 waiter
 4748 doug      20   0  4156   92    0 R   99  0.0  31:43.67 waiter
 4749 doug      20   0  4156   92    0 R   99  0.0  31:43.58 waiter
 4750 doug      20   0  4156   92    0 R   99  0.0  31:44.06 waiter
 4745 doug      20   0  4156   92    0 R   99  0.0  31:42.22 waiter
 2851 doug      20   0 17332 1452 1064 S    0  0.0   2:23.77 top
 4728 doug      20   0 17332 1332  960 R    0  0.0   0:07.02 top
    1 root      20   0 24464 2360 1344 S    0  0.0   0:00.88 init


Loading program output:

Child  0 lp  149 of 1800: Elapsed:1951.14 s. Delta:  13.15 s. user cpu:1938.20 s. sys cpu:   0.10 s. load:0.9934  last sleep freq.:  27.376 Hz. average sleep freq.:  27.492 Hz.
Child  3 lp  150 of 1800: Elapsed:1951.60 s. Delta:  13.16 s. user cpu:1938.84 s. sys cpu:   0.09 s. load:0.9935  last sleep freq.:  27.356 Hz. average sleep freq.:  27.670 Hz.
Child  1 lp  151 of 1800: Elapsed:1955.15 s. Delta:  13.17 s. user cpu:1941.74 s. sys cpu:   0.05 s. load:0.9932  last sleep freq.:  27.335 Hz. average sleep freq.:  27.803 Hz.
Child  6 lp  151 of 1800: Elapsed:1957.17 s. Delta:  12.74 s. user cpu:1944.34 s. sys cpu:   0.07 s. load:0.9935  last sleep freq.:  28.257 Hz. average sleep freq.:  27.775 Hz.
Child  5 lp  152 of 1800: Elapsed:1957.65 s. Delta:  12.96 s. user cpu:1944.84 s. sys cpu:   0.06 s. load:0.9935  last sleep freq.:  27.778 Hz. average sleep freq.:  27.952 Hz.
Child  7 lp  151 of 1800: Elapsed:1958.06 s. Delta:  12.74 s. user cpu:1945.80 s. sys cpu:   0.03 s. load:0.9938  last sleep freq.:  28.257 Hz. average sleep freq.:  27.762 Hz.
Child  4 lp  152 of 1800: Elapsed:1958.47 s. Delta:  13.01 s. user cpu:1944.70 s. sys cpu:   0.06 s. load:0.9930  last sleep freq.:  27.671 Hz. average sleep freq.:  27.940 Hz.
Child  2 lp  152 of 1800: Elapsed:1959.97 s. Delta:  12.75 s. user cpu:1945.56 s. sys cpu:   0.07 s. load:0.9927  last sleep freq.:  28.235 Hz. average sleep freq.:  27.919 Hz.

0.993 * 8 = 7.94 actual load