On 9 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a general question - maybe someone will laugh, but when I look at xosview I
>see one cpu only used by sys {the red bar} and the other cpu is used by usr, nice and
>sys.
> Is this normal? If yes, does this mean one cpu is managing system tasks {writing to
>disk, reading ram etc} and the other one is managing user tasks?
I'd be that you're seeing the old, old cpu load bug that nobody cared
enough to fix in 2.0.x. Basically, if only one CPU was in use it would
give you times that were not too bad, but in SMP it would mix up user
and system time so that only the total was accurate.
Time to convert to 2.2.x;-)
rgb
Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
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