Am Montag, 8. Dezember 2008 schrieb Barton Robinson:
> Yes, top lies.

This is no longer true with SLES10+ and RHEL5+. They use the stpt instruction
for accurate accounting.
If you still see wrong numbers with a recent distro, this would be a bug and
should be reported.

> So are you really saying a single threaded process is using more than one
> cpu?  Don't need much more proof than that.

Per default top accumulates all threads of a process. It is completely normal
to see values > 100% if there are threads.
Use shift-H to see single thread values.

Christan

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