load > 1, no process using >10% CPU...?

[Damian Gerow]

Thus spake Damian Gerow (dgerow at afflictions.org) [19/04/05 21:21]:
: I'm a little fuzzy as to /how/ load is calculated, but why would my system
: think that it's doing all kinds of work when ps, top, and systat can't
: really tell me /what/ it's doing?

It turned out to be a runaway xmms process.  But I still find it strange
that it didn't show anything obvious in top.