High CPU Utilization

[Roger Jochem]

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Or one cpu with hyper-threading.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Parish" <clicknow at SWIFTDSL.COM.AU>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: High CPU Utilization


> 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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