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if press h inside htop for quick help:

CPU

Blue      : Low-priority threads
Green     : Normal priority threads
Red       : Kernel threads
Turquoise : Virtualization threads

but yellow?

IMAGE: See htop result

IvanTrofimov
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In my case, yellow means that the CPU time is spent on virtualization (for VDS) and CPU is lost. Change your hosting provider.

IvanTrofimov
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Making an educated guess: you've got htop's detailed CPU time display on. Under the Black Night colorscheme, yellow is io-wait. Which makes sense for a database server.

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