On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Dave Hylands <dhyla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, check your CPU usage. It's probably less than 100%. Let's say > it's at 46%. That means that the system is spending 54% of its time > "doing nothing" or being idle. > > From a macroscopic level, it looks like the CPU is busy. But from a > microscopic level, the kernel is spending 540 millseconds out of every > second waiting for something to happen. Those 540 milliseconds are > when the kernel is idle. > > -- > Dave Hylands > Shuswap, BC, Canada > http://www.DaveHylands.com/ > Thanks .
