On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:54:06PM -0800, Barney Cordoba wrote: > I have a dual core system running 7.0 and I can't get > top to show more than 100% usage no matter how I > hammer it. My MAC shows over 100% often, but its not > clear if top is averaging the 2 cpus or just not going > over 100, or just showing 1 of the cpus. One CPU of a dual CPU system is only 50%. > Is there any way to show the per-cpu usage to get an > idea of the overall efficiency of sharing? Are there > any tools that can be used to monitor this? What > exactly is top showing? Each CPU has its own idle thread. You can see those system threads for example with top -S. -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de bernd_at_bwct.de info_at_bwct.de support_at_fizon.deReceived on Fri Feb 22 2008 - 21:31:34 UTC
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