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 _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
