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From: jerome lacoste <jerome.lacoste@gmail.com>
To: Norbert van Nobelen <norbert-kernel@edusupport.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 50% CPU user usage but top doesn't list any CPU unfriendly task
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:43:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a2cf1f6050104024368eb1424@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501040851.23287.norbert-kernel@edusupport.nl>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-04 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-03 21:46 50% CPU user usage but top doesn't list any CPU unfriendly task jerome lacoste
2005-01-04  7:51 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-04 10:43   ` jerome lacoste [this message]
2005-01-05 11:16     ` Toon van der Pas

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