# Very high load average on opennebula host

**URL:** <https://forum.opennebula.io/t/very-high-load-average-on-opennebula-host/1668>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 11, 2016, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/very-high-load-average-on-opennebula-host/1668 "2016-01-11T10:43:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![nikksno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a88e4f/32.png) [@nikksno](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/nikksno)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/very-high-load-average-on-opennebula-host/1668/1 "2016-01-11T10:43:27Z")

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Hi!

I have a quad-core single-server one setup with three vms running and I have an 18.0 load average… I read this equals to 4.5 per core which apparently is very high…

Here is a glances screenshot:

 ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/opennebula/original/2X/8/8683203ecce5a8953744533dbd30d5a985998848.png)

Here is a scout screenshot:

 ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/opennebula/original/2X/1/11779e8f679f8db5a68194fd497da22a00e07664.png)

And here is a sunstone screenshot:

 ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/opennebula/original/2X/0/0e8550b6ddd479acf3bfe453db9ba3a8f5b70ba7.png)

The cpu though never actually goes over 10%…

Am I doing something wrong here? Even though the vms aren’t using many resources should I actually allocate less of them to each?

Thank you very much in advance!