CPU usage shown by top

Nikolas Britton nikolas.britton at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 18:47:13 GMT 2005


http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/ldavg1.shtml
http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/ldavg2.shtml

On 6/21/05, Richard Lupton <r.lupton at gmail.com> 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 header shows
> reasonably high load, but the sum of the cpu column never adds up to
> as much.
> 
> Thanks,
>     Richard
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