Load average is a measure of runnable processes and not CPU usage. Probably a good way to find the cause of high load average is to run "ps auxw" and look for processes with STATus "R" (running). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)#Unix-style_load_calculation]
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