How to solve High Load average issue in Linux systems?

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Published on 2012-12-04T17:01:15Z Indexed on 2012/12/04 17:03 UTC
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The following is the different load with cpu time in different time limit . The below output has parsed from the top command.

TIME    LOAD    US  SY  NICE    ID  WA  HI  SI  ST    

12:02:27    208.28  4.2%us  1.0%sy  0.2%ni  93.9%id 0.7%wa  0.0%hi  0.0%si  0.0%st
12:23:22    195.48  4.2%us  1.0%sy  0.2%ni  93.9%id 0.7%wa  0.0%hi  0.0%si  0.0%st
12:34:55    199.15  4.2%us  1.0%sy  0.2%ni  93.9%id 0.7%wa  0.0%hi  0.0%si  0.0%st
13:41:50    203.66  4.2%us  1.0%sy  0.2%ni  93.8%id 0.8%wa  0.0%hi  0.0%si  0.0%st
13:42:58    278.63  4.2%us  1.0%sy  0.2%ni  93.8%id 0.8%wa  0.0%hi  0.0%si  0.0%st

Following is the additional Information of the system?

cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor   : 0
vendor_id   : GenuineIntel
cpu family  : 6
model       : 23
model name  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5410  @ 2.33GHz
stepping    : 10
cpu MHz     : 1992.000
cache size  : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings    : 4
core id     : 0
cpu cores   : 4
apicid      : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fdiv_bug    : no
hlt_bug     : no
f00f_bug    : no
coma_bug    : no
fpu     : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp      : yes
flags       : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr dca sse4_1 lahf_lm
bogomips    : 4658.69
clflush size    : 64
power management:

processor   : 1
vendor_id   : GenuineIntel
cpu family  : 6
model       : 23
model name  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5410  @ 2.33GHz
stepping    : 10
cpu MHz     : 1992.000
cache size  : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings    : 4
core id     : 1
cpu cores   : 4
apicid      : 1
initial apicid  : 1
fdiv_bug    : no
hlt_bug     : no
f00f_bug    : no
coma_bug    : no
fpu     : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp      : yes
flags       : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr dca sse4_1 lahf_lm
bogomips    : 4655.00
clflush size    : 64
power management:

processor   : 2
vendor_id   : GenuineIntel
cpu family  : 6
model       : 23
model name  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5410  @ 2.33GHz
stepping    : 10
cpu MHz     : 1992.000
cache size  : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings    : 4
core id     : 2
cpu cores   : 4
apicid      : 2
initial apicid  : 2
fdiv_bug    : no
hlt_bug     : no
f00f_bug    : no
coma_bug    : no
fpu     : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp      : yes
flags       : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr dca sse4_1 lahf_lm
bogomips    : 4655.00
clflush size    : 64
power management:

processor   : 3
vendor_id   : GenuineIntel
cpu family  : 6
model       : 23
model name  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5410  @ 2.33GHz
stepping    : 10
cpu MHz     : 1992.000
cache size  : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings    : 4
core id     : 3
cpu cores   : 4
apicid      : 3
initial apicid  : 3
fdiv_bug    : no
hlt_bug     : no
f00f_bug    : no
coma_bug    : no
fpu     : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp      : yes
flags       : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr dca sse4_1 lahf_lm
bogomips    : 4654.99
clflush size    : 64
power management:

Memory:

   total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
   Mem:             2          1          1          0          0          0
   Swap:            5          0          5

let me know why the system is getting abnormally this much high load?

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