htop explained
peteris.rocks/blog/htop
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
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