# htop explained

<https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

For the longest time I did not know what everything meant in htop. I knew that load average 1.0 on my two core machine means that the CPU usage is at 50%. But why does it say 1.0? I decided to look

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