Why so must idle time ?

From: Giuliano Pochini (pochini@shiny.it)
Date: Fri Jul 07 2000 - 09:54:52 EST


I have a machine running web server. It has a lot of httpd's loaded and
most of them are sleeping. The load average is always around 7-13, so I
wonder why the CPU usage doesn't reach ~100%. It wastes CPU time or
simply there is something top does not show ?

top output:

  4:40pm up 1 day, 3:07, 5 users, load average: 12.78, 12.95, 11.93
349 processes: 342 sleeping, 1 running, 6 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 14.9% user, 42.4% system, 0.0% nice, 42.6% idle
Mem: 387700K av, 373636K used, 14064K free, 319580K shrd, 21584K buff
Swap: 136512K av, 0K used, 136512K free 277616K cached

kernel 2.2.6 UP

Bye.
    Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Corporation {AS6665} ->)|(<-

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