How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and
total CPU use ~5%
Wojciech Puchar
wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Mon May 25 19:35:03 UTC 2009
> Not true. top(1) can fully utilize the CPU. Doing so does not put
> the system under full load.
top uses small percentage of CPU power. if it would use all - it WOULD
mean full CPU load.
>>
>> load average is how much processes (by average) is not doing calculations
>> because something is not yet available and depends of computer resources(*)
>> - like CPU time, disk I/O results etc..
>>
>> (*) - for example waiting on tty read is not calculated to load average as
>> it's depends on human not computer.
>
> What?
exactly what i wrote. reread if you don't understand.
anyway i'm quitting this discussion as it's obvious for most people that
can read what i mean and what CPU load/utilization mean.
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