Re: CPU usage shown by top

2005-06-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/ldavg1.shtml http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/ldavg2.shtml On 6/21/05, Richard Lupton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Can anyone explain where the CPU usage values in top come from? When my computer is busy, the CPU states row in the

Re: CPU usage shown by top

2005-06-29 Thread scuba
Hi, Interesting reading. BTW, with hyperthreading (or SMP) boxes the top command shows another column that is not documented in the man page. What does it mean the C column? I guess it´s the cpu actually running the job, but why I can see something like this: STATE C

CPU usage shown by top

2005-06-21 Thread Richard Lupton
Hello, Can anyone explain where the CPU usage values in top come from? When my computer is busy, the CPU states row in the header shows reasonably high load, but the sum of the cpu column never adds up to as much. Thanks, Richard ___