While running make -j 2 on some large source tree, top reports:
CPU states: 23.2% user, 7.3% system, 16.8% nice, 70.6% idle
[...]
CPU states: 15.5% user, 4.1% system, 6.8% nice, 81.2% idle
[...]
CPU states: 9.9% user, 2.5% system, 7.4% nice, 88.6% idle
Mem: 254892K av, 247972K used, 6920K free, 0K shrd, 63992K buff
Swap: 104416K av, 848K used, 103568K free 130348K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
208 kjetilho 19 19 736 736 584 R N 0 4.1 0.2 29:20 rc5des
207 kjetilho 19 19 736 736 584 R N 0 3.3 0.2 29:16 rc5des
211 root 1 0 41736 40M 1808 S 0 1.5 16.3 0:27 X
3642 kjetilho 2 0 832 832 612 R 0 0.7 0.3 0:00 top
8124 kjetilho 18 0 1340 1340 888 R 0 0.5 0.5 0:00 cc1
2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.3 0.0 0:51 kswapd
263 kjetilho 0 0 2560 2560 1448 S 0 0.3 1.0 0:00 xterm
555 kjetilho 0 0 5236 5236 3092 S 0 0.3 2.0 0:00 xmms
(It fluctuates wildly, so there isn't a trend, these are some of the
worst numbers.)
The rc5des should soak up all available idle time, but it isn't.
System details:
Abit BP6 with 2 Celeron 366, latest BIOS update (NJ).
Kernel 2.3.99pre3 (I first noticed it in 2.3.46)
Top from ps-99.4.14-17 (SuSE 6.1)
Latest ALSA is providing the music
Kjetil T.
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