top gives me
top - 01:59:25 up 11 min, 3 users, load average: 9.02, 8.21, 4.75
Tasks: 149 total, 2 running, 147 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 50.0%us, 50.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 24642564k total, 1488724k used, 23153840k free, 26608k buffers
Swap: 4882428k total, 0k used, 4882428k free, 246960k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1791 xxx 20 0 1485m 119m 56m S 92 0.5 10:16.21 cgminer
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 54 0.0 6:06.87 ksoftirqd/1
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 54 0.0 5:56.12 ksoftirqd/0
$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 47 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 1 2 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 4 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
16: 13 15 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
23: 29 3 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2
42: 6807 208 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
43: 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
44: 9506 12 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
45: 14 0 PCI-MSI-edge mei
46: 508 1 PCI-MSI-edge snd_hda_intel
48: 1843 0 PCI-MSI-edge fglrx[0]@PCI:1:0:0
49: 1949 0 PCI-MSI-edge fglrx[1]@PCI:2:0:0
50: 1968 3 PCI-MSI-edge fglrx[2]@PCI:4:0:0
51: 1798 4 PCI-MSI-edge fglrx[3]@PCI:5:0:0
52: 2085 1 PCI-MSI-edge fglrx[4]@PCI:6:0:0
53: 2098 1 PCI-MSI-edge fglrx[5]@PCI:7:0:0
NMI: 616 612 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 26042 58249 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 616 612 Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI: 0 0 IRQ work interrupts
RES: 23149 17583 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 270 201 Function call interrupts
TLB: 1521 9791 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 3 3 Machine check polls
ERR: 0
MIS:
Any ideas as to how to get the CPU load down.