Why does load average not match CPU load?

Question

System administration

Why at 3% and 2% load average is more than 3?
Is it worth doing something?

Answer 1

It's worth doing something

Look at the full output of ps. Look for processes in state D, for example.

Answer 2

Most likely, the processes are in D-state or something similar.

ps ax  | egrep -v '( S | Ss| S< | SN | S | Sl | R)'

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Answer 3

All the same, load averide is a queue to the processor, and not an indicator of how much it is loaded, at least the queue can be due to file I/O.
The usual top output here would say a lot more than their htop chunk.