On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
a) my system is 100% idle, since no processes except the idle process takes up
up CPU time or
b) that a or some processes take up 2% CPU time which aren't being shown or
c) that each of my cpu core is only 86.6/89.4% idle?
It means (c).
On Fri Feb 11 11, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
a) my system is 100% idle, since no processes except the idle process takes
up
up CPU time or
b) that a or some processes take up 2% CPU time which aren't being shown or
c) that each of my cpu
On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
It means (c). Kernel activity, short-lived transient processes, and
imperfections in sampling data are the other ~13 / 10 %
thanks. it seems in some cases these imperfections have quite an impact:
last pid: 48135; load averages:
On Fri Feb 11 11, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
It means (c). Kernel activity, short-lived transient processes, and
imperfections in sampling data are the other ~13 / 10 %
thanks. it seems in some cases these imperfections have quite an
On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
also i noticed that when a processes CPU activity goes up to let's say 10% and
then down again to 0% this doesn't mean that the idle process will jump to
200%
instantly, but it takes ~ 10 seconds for it to reclaim the CPU activity that
was
