On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Ralf Baechle 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.
It wasn't the fact that tar was using 60% of the CPU bandwidth
that bothered me, rather the fact that the 60% was in "system"
time - in kernel. I would think that tar would be 60-100% in
'user', and low on "system".
That was what I saw as odd.
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