On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 07:30:31AM +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > I have top running as well. Here the interesting part is the difference > between (100% - 'idle time') and the sum of running processes. In the > case at hand there is 0% idle but only 65% used, indicating that some > heavy cache trashing might be going on. The X server uses almost > everything. Mmm, wait ... There is also 9% system time, probably the > pipe into the X server.
Top is pretty useless for measuring loads that aren't constant. It seems to sample CPU loads at instants in time, which is why top is always high on the list. I tend to use gkrellm. - Steve
