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

[Blammo]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Greg Grotsky <spikeygg.mythbox at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> <SNIP>
> What gives, any idea why I have load averages of nearly 2 when the CPU is
> basically idle with 1 running job??

Check VMstat, dstat, but I suspect either disk or network IO.
Something kernel level not assigned to an individual process.