[mythtv-users] CPU Load vs. CPU Utilization (uptime and top)

[Greg Grotsky]

When I launch top, I see:

top - 21:11:01 up  2:28,  4 users,  load average: 1.91, 1.62, 1.36
Tasks: 232 total,   1 running, 231 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.6%us,  0.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 96.8%id,  2.3%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.1%si,
0.0%st
Mem:  132010188k total, 23824268k used, 108185920k free,   180384k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free, 21094840k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 3223 spikeygg  20   0 2593m  44m  10m S    4  0.0   4:03.10 mythbackend
 2918 spikeygg  20   0  516m  22m  10m S    1  0.0   1:21.19 unity-panel-ser
 2920 spikeygg  20   0  417m 7680 3464 S    1  0.0   0:58.63 hud-service
 5693 spikeygg  20   0  422m  15m  10m S    1  0.0   0:21.20 indicator-multi
 2032 spikeygg  20   0 27324 3124  624 S    1  0.0   0:22.39 dbus-daemon
 2338 spikeygg  20   0 1371m  92m  36m S    1  0.1   1:47.21 compiz
 3239 spikeygg  20   0 1104m  10m 5548 S    1  0.0   1:31.26 mythlogserver
  122 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:05.24 kworker/1:1
 1233 mysql     20   0 2269m  70m 8088 S    0  0.1   0:08.79 mysqld
 1288 root      20   0  206m  66m  10m S    0  0.1   2:22.10 Xorg
 1568 nobody    20   0 21480 1412 1064 S    0  0.0   0:11.89 LCDd
 2934 spikeygg  20   0  412m 5340 3952 S    0  0.0   0:26.34 indicator-appli
 5502 spikeygg  20   0  904m 293m  35m S    0  0.2   2:09.67 firefox
 6457 spikeygg  20   0 17468 1416  968 R    0  0.0   0:00.48 top
    1 root      20   0 24544 2544 1352 S    0  0.0   0:02.63 init
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.25 ksoftirqd/0

What gives, any idea why I have load averages of nearly 2 when the CPU is
basically idle with 1 running job??
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