On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:00:33PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 6:58pm up 1 day, 9:37, 1 user, load average: 1.77, 1.60,
> 1.00
> 38 processes: 34 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 8.6% user, 60.2% system, 0.0% nice, 31.3% idle
>
> The only active process on my system is "tar". Is it normal to
> see system CPU usage at 60% when untarring things, or is this odd
> behaviour?
>
> The system this is occuring on is a cobalt RAQ2 system running
> Linux 2.0.34 modified.
>
> Just curious...
The %-number is the cpu-time-user / real-time-since-start-of-process * 100.
So that number makes sense, like on every Linux system.
Ralf
