> Not only would that not fix it, it doesn't make any sense, either. If my > machine has no workload, increasing the available power to process said > nonexistant workload isn't going to change anything. > > And let's not forget that I'm curious to find out why the load average is up > there when there's no apparent workload; dropping the load average is not > really the goal of the question.
Looks like you don't know the algorithms used to calculate the number. But it is clearly beyond your skills to go read the source. Such a shame that we make source code available for people who can't learn, and only know how to complain. It does not work how you think it does. We are not going to explain it in detail to you because you would not understand.

