System Cpu Between 50-70% and need to find out why

[Julian Elischer]

Paul wrote:


> 
> last pid: 18967;  load averages: 29.00, 44.28, 
> 46.39                                                     up 0+10:16:42  
> 11:17:00
> 308 processes: 41 running, 239 sleeping, 7 zombie, 21 waiting
> CPU states: 13.3% user,  0.0% nice, 74.5% system, 12.2% interrupt,  0.0% 
> idle

that's odd... there are 4 idle threads each with 22% of a CPU..
there should be 22% idle. (I think)


> Mem: 1204M Active, 5678M Inact, 381M Wired, 20K Cache, 214M Buf, 8398M Free
> Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free
> 
>   PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU 
> COMMAND
>    11 root             1 171   52     0K    16K RUN    2  93:59 22.80% 
> idle: cpu2
>    10 root             1 171   52     0K    16K RUN    3 116:20 22.46% 
> idle: cpu3
>    12 root             1 171   52     0K    16K RUN    1 101:36 22.36% 
> idle: cpu1
>    13 root             1 171   52     0K    16K RUN    0 123:32 22.22% 
> idle: cpu0
>