On 15 Sep 2007, at 04:34, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:

> On Friday 14 September 2007, Michael Bane wrote:
>
>> top - 15:07:47 up 10 days,  4:58, 11 users,  load average: 2.18,
>> 2.10, 2.18
>> Tasks: 162 total,   4 running, 158 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> Cpu(s):  2.6%us,  0.7%sy,  0.9%ni, 94.7%id,  0.5%wa,  0.1%hi,
>> 0.5%si, 0.0%st
>> Mem:   3989488k total,  1331328k used,  2658160k free,    58332k
>> buffers Swap:  2031608k total,   292344k used,  1739264k free,
>> 502920k cached
>>
>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  P  
>> COMMAND
>> 20657 mkb       39  19 24400  18m  720 R  100  0.5  30:35.13 0 mprime
>> 20658 mkb       39  19 24408  18m  732 R   75  0.5  30:28.15 1 mprime
>
> I'm sure that others will be able to give you a more precise
> explanation, but it seems to me that your "top" report contradicts
> itself. It says that your system is 95 % idle, but at the same time it
> shows that mprime is using 100 % and 75 % of the CPU. (I assume that
> the way that "top" works with your Intel Core2 Duo is that it adds up
> to 200 %.)
>
> If the part about your system being 95 % idle is correct, then it  
> seems
> to me that Maxload is working properly.

don't forget that load is about running and queuing jobs and above  
top shows load to be >2

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