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we have the follwing CPU details

more lscpu

Architecture:          x86_64

CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit

Byte Order:            Little Endian

CPU(s):                32

On-line CPU(s) list:   0-31

Thread(s) per core:    2

Core(s) per socket:    8

uptime show

uptime

 07:41:41 up 40 days, 11 min,  2 users,  load average: 17.82, 23.40, 24.73

so we have 32 CPU ( Thread(s) per core: 2 )

Regarding the high values of the CPU load average from uptime,
are these values normal?

load average: 17.82, 23.40, 24.73

This is a hard one.

If the load average is higher than number of CPUs (for too long), then this is a sign that things are queuing up.

However if they are less, this is not a sign of anything. There can be one process, using 100% of a CPU, that is not getting its work done.

On the other hand, if you have many low priority batch processes, with no real time deadline. This can cause the load average to go up, but not affect the performance of the machine.

So the short answer is, it depends.

In this case:

I see no cause for alarm, if and only if, the system is doing useful work. However there may be a single (un-parallelised) task, that is not keeping up with its work load, load-average will not tell you about this.

Kindly check the commands below.

First method

Find out the number of processor configured in the host:

    cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i processor| wc -l

Suppose the output we got is 4: then, a load average up to 4 is OK. If it goes beyond 4 then there is an issue.

Note: the (acceptable) load average directly depends on the number of core processor configured.

Second method

You can use the script below to find if the load average is fine or not:

    #!/bin/bash



    processor_count=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i processor| wc -l`

    echo $processor_count



    w| awk 'NR==1 {print $1=$2=$3=$4=$5=" ";print $0}'| sed -r "s/^s+//g"|awk -F ":" '{print $2}'| awk -v pr="$processor_count" -F "," '{if (($1 > pr) || ($2 > pr) || ($3 > pr)){print "Load average is high and its above 100% of utilization"}else{print "load average is fine"}}'