Re: 50% CPU user usage but top doesn't list any CPU unfriendly task

jerome lacoste
2005-01-04T10:43:41Z

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:51:23 +0100, Norbert van Nobelen
<norbert-kernel@edusupport.nl> wrote:
> The load and the CPU useage are two separate things:
> Load: Defined by a programmer on an estimate on which his program is running
> 100% fulltime, thus consuming little or more CPU/IO.
> The interesting program you mention is the VoIP application. Is this program
> multithreaded and is every thread using a little bit of CPU? Than it quickly
> adds up to the mentioned 40%.

There are some threads in that app, not that many, and none show in
the top listing (which displays at least 30 entries). So I don't think
this sum scenario is valid.

>The load is than also easily reached.