Alright, but what is the difference between CPU percentage of usage and the 
load. The percentage remains at 100% even if the load is 1 or more than 3.
So, may I know what's the difference, and can somebody tell me what actually
the load means? 

Kingsly John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had recently mailed thus:
>>On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
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>> | But I have run sustained compilations etc. where CPU usage, as shown by top 
>> |is beyond 99%, for several hours. Nothing happens...
>>
>>I have run at over 99% for about 36hours... ran jack the ripper or some
>>such tool on a server I was admining over a weekend just to see for myself
>http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
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