From the developers channel at IRC, a #mastodon instance owner reports:
23:33 <deleted> load average: 374.45, 189.91, 108.87
23:33 <deleted> epic
The wave remains strong. What a week.
@april With multiple CPU cores, load averages can go high. See `man uptime`:
"Load averages are not normalized for the number of CPUs in a system, so a load average of 1 means a single CPU system is loaded all the time while on a 4 CPU system it means it was idle 75% of the time."
Guess the server has a lot of CPU cores plus hyperthreading. A dual 64-core CPU blade at 100% utilization would look like 256. There may be even more cores.
@albertcardona I didn’t even know load can go that high