Franco Silvestro wrote on Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 01:24:39PM +0100 :
> 
> I see that with last kernel-enterprise (doing nothing), very high system cpu:
> CPU0:   0.5% user  84.4% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  14.9% idle
> CPU1:   9.5% user  10.9% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  79.4% idle
> 
> also with last kernel-smp (doing nothing), very high system cpu:
> CPU0:   0.9% user  79.8% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  19.2% idle
> CPU1:   0.9% user   0.3% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  98.6% idle

I honestly have not seen this.  I have high userspace times, but not
system times.

> else with old kernel-enterprise-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk (doing nothing) seems ok :
> CPU0:   0.0% user   0.0% system   0.0% nice   0.1% iowait   0.0% idle
> CPU1:   0.0% user   0.0% system   0.0% nice   0.1% iowait   0.0% idle

You've highlighted something I saw on another machine.  Notice how on
the .16mdk the numbers don't add up?  Even in a heavy compile, the
numbers won't add up to 100%.  There seems to be some kind of scaling
that is happening.  

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