htop explained

Global World Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:59:42 GMT Moderate confidence — 64/100

For the longest time I did not know what everything meant in htop.
I thought that load average 1.0 on my two core machine means that the CPU usage is at 50%.

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For the longest time I did not know what everything meant in htop.
I thought that load average 1.0 on my two core machine means that the CPU usage is at 50%.

Sources: Peteris