On 2009-01-31 02:52:34 +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:54:34AM +0000, Dean Chester wrote: > > I recently noticed that my CPU is at 100% when the temperature of > > my CPU is high. Taking a look at System Monitor i have also > > discovered that my swap space is being used while only 13% of the > > RAM is, why isn't is using the rest of the RAM. Has anyone got any > > ideas why? > > No. CPU utilization has nothing directly to do with swap usage.
If the machine swaps a lot, the load average can get very high. For instance, on my PowerBook, just because I started a process that required much memory, the load average reached 25. I suppose the cause is that background processes that woke up were waiting for memory, and during this time they were regarded as running. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org