you must be paging, or doing I/O (sockets between processes or
something)?  IE I run a multithreaded code that will run the cpu% to
100 on all 4 of my xeon processors...


Robert Hyatt                    Computer and Information Sciences
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On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Leo C. Kempel wrote:

> Folks,
> 
>   I have my dual XEON machine (MS440GX mother) running two identical problems 
>simutaneously.
>   Here is the "top" display:
> 
>   2:00pm  up 20:45,  5 users,  load average: 2.19, 0.93, 0.34
> 59 processes: 54 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 154.9% user,  6.1% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
> Mem:  971932K av, 277180K used, 694752K free,  37212K shrd,  30800K buff
> Swap: 128484K av,      0K used, 128484K free                 27100K cached
> 
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 28817 kempel     6   0 94752  92M   520 R       0 80.2  9.7   2:30 prism
> 28819 kempel    12   0 94752  92M   520 R       0 74.1  9.7   1:50 prism
>  3499 root       0   0  2252 2252  1244 R       0  5.5  0.2   1:39 xterm
> 28822 kempel     2   0   724  724   556 R       0  0.9  0.0   0:00 top
>  3523 root       0   0  2344 2344  1236 S       0  0.1  0.2   0:06 xterm
> 
> Why does one cpu read 80% but the other only 74% for my work?  Often, I have
>  seen the numbers work out to be 99% and 67%.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Leo
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