Hi Devi, If idle time is around 37%, it means your cpu is 63% utilized. It again depends on what kind of query is running on ur system.
Can u also please check %us, %wa and %sy. %us will give amount cpu utilized by any applicaiton running on the machine. %wa will give amount of wait io. %sys will give cpu utilized by system kernal. regards anandkl On 10/29/07, Devi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello friends, > > I'm using MySQL5 on RHEL5. From the top, i understood that the CPU is > under utlized by MySQL, whose idle time is around 37%. It is dedicated box > for MySQL alone. Is there any way to reduce the idle time of the CPU or how > can i make my MySQL to Utilize the full CPU time. > > Thanks > DEVI.G
