This really isn't a very good analogy. CPU load isn't a necessarily a measure of CPU contention - it's simply the average number of processes running or waiting for disk I/O at any time. The latter is increasingly often the issue at hand, and tends to affect load much more drastically than CPU-intensive tasks.
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This really isn't a very good analogy. CPU load isn't a necessarily a measure of CPU contention - it's simply the average number of processes running or waiting for disk I/O at any time. The latter is increasingly often the issue at hand, and tends to affect load much more drastically than CPU-intensive tasks.