Look at this "top" snapshot:
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2:30pm up 3:46, 10 users, load average: 2.96, 1.50, 0.84
49 processes: 44 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 1 stopped
CPU states: 0.1% user, 119.4% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 63208K av, 62004K used, 1204K free, 24556K shrd, 34892K buff
Swap: 34236K av, 140K used, 34096K free 7056K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1632 brain 20 0 1724 1724 992 R 0 33.4 2.7 1:19 mc
1654 brain 20 0 784 784 576 R 0 32.2 1.2 0:49 mpg123
1652 root 14 0 500 500 368 R 0 21.4 0.7 0:40 top
84 root 0 0 244 224 192 S 0 15.7 0.3 0:03 gpm
1655 root 20 0 624 624 476 R 0 10.6 0.9 0:02 vi
3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 5.0 0.0 0:18 kupdate
121 root 2 0 844 844 588 S 0 0.6 1.3 0:00 bash
4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.2 0.0 0:08 kswapd
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That's not a joke, it WAS on my machine on very busy network. I've got 2.2.19
kernel and single AMD K6-2/400. I don't have any turbocharger, so I suppose my
CPU is able to perform mere 100% of the load. Can you explain it?
Thanx
Brain
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Petr `Brain' Kulhavy
<brain@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~brain
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
--- Promising costs nothing, it's the delivering that kills you.
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