Load on a unix machine is more or less a count of how many processes are waiting for IO, so you will see high numbers when doing lot's of IO. This way you can go loads many multiples of 100%.
On a multicore machine, N x 100% is normal as a CPU maximum. My laptop has 4 cores and can show 400% load when doing something highly parallel. It is good that the load came back down to normal ;-) On 19 May 2014, at 16:54, Esteban A. Maringolo <[email protected]> wrote: > I am running a data migration, which involves some in-memory > computation and heavy database i/o. > Looking at how intensive this was the CPU use indicated by 'top' is > 200% , I've seen percentages over 100% before, things like 107%... > > How is this possible? > > I'm running the pharo inside a VMWare machine with 2 cores. > > The good thing is that even with such high CPU, I forked the execution > at userBackgroundPriority and the UI remained responsive. > > After this CPU intensive task took place, the vm got back to the > "insidious" ~5% CPU idle state. :) > > Esteban A. Maringolo > <pharoCpu.png>
