# High system load \> 100% **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Created:** [October 18, 2020, 8:56am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/high-system-load-100/36123 "2020-10-18T08:56:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 10:01am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/high-system-load-100/36123/4 "2020-10-18T10:01:07Z")
> [@RoyWissenburg](#): > > I guess @robertklep explaned it somewhere. > [@Interpreting Average load metrics](https://community.homey.app/t/interpreting-average-load-metrics/35898/2): > > A load average isn’t a percentage, even though Athom has decided to show them as such. The number basically represents the number of processes waiting for a time slice on the CPU. These are “active” processes; for instance, a process that is just waiting for (say) some data coming in over a network connection is “sleeping” and doesn’t count towards the load. Only when there is actual data incoming and the app needs to be woken up in order to handle the new data will it count. If the load is be… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.homey.app/t/high-system-load-100/36123)._