this WILL use up to 100% of your CPU if other programs in the user space arent busy. while other processes are idle this will increase the load on the CPU:
joe@mlinux:/home/joe
$> top -b -n 1
top - 13:42:59 up 8 days, 4:05, 4 users, load average: 1.29, 1.00, 0.93
Tasks: 89 total, 2...