Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 21:34:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Subject: Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5% Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905252132300.41170@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310905251231x8c61c93j97bf364ebea8d533@mail.gmail.com> References: <200905241315.n4ODFB96007801@mp.cs.niu.edu> <b79ecaef0905250104p55c302cdh102202d1a06a389b@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905251013500.36458@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <b79ecaef0905250133n5cd641dv6ca8e088f8fa2f33@mail.gmail.com> <4A1A58FA.60303@boosten.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905251912000.40022@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <C9B964A3-BE91-4518-B13C-EE28282FD810@boosten.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905252107590.40989@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1932D812-03CF-48AF-A306-669C39862EB7@boosten.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905252119520.41069@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4ad871310905251231x8c61c93j97bf364ebea8d533@mail.gmail.com>
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> Not true. top(1) can fully utilize the CPU. Doing so does not put > the system under full load. top uses small percentage of CPU power. if it would use all - it WOULD mean full CPU load. >> >> load average is how much processes (by average) is not doing calculations >> because something is not yet available and depends of computer resources(*) >> - like CPU time, disk I/O results etc.. >> >> (*) - for example waiting on tty read is not calculated to load average as >> it's depends on human not computer. > > What? exactly what i wrote. reread if you don't understand. anyway i'm quitting this discussion as it's obvious for most people that can read what i mean and what CPU load/utilization mean.
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