A caveat for bonnie: on an ideal system, with inifinitely-fast I/O,
the %CPU numbers should all be 100%. Anything less means the CPU
is being held up waiting for I/O.
One can see it the other way around: for CPU usage higher than, say 85%,
your bonnie numbers are probably CPU bound, rather than i/o bound.
Usually, when a bonnie test is run, one is interested is measuring the i/o
performance, but your mileage may vary.
Thus, %CPU does not give any meaningful representation of actual
*usage* of the CPU (as in, how much processing was needed to do everything).
Could you rephrase that?
F.
