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Subject: Re: Top shows cpu usage 165% with kvm lunched
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 10:23 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Kvm guest runs slackware-current, doing extracting linux tarball, top
> shows over 100% cpu usage. Is this a known issue?

Does: top -H, show the same?

I suspect it might be the cumulative cpu usage of several threads.