High CPU Utilization

[Brian Parish]

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On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:27 pm, Howard Robinson wrote:
> Hmm
> I have just done a top -c and it shows
> CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
>          total    2.4%    0.0%    0.6%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%  197.0%
>         cpu00    1.6%    0.0%    0.2%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%   98.2%
>         cpu01    0.8%    0.0%    0.4%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%   98.8%
>
> That's 197% idle!!!
> Does that throw a suspision that top may be flawed
>
Well there are days when I am at least 197% idle ;-)

No, that just means you have two CPU's and it doesn't average.

cheers
Brian

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