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

[jerome lacoste]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:51:23 +0100, Norbert van Nobelen
<norbert-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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