I was looking at the cpu use of my linux machine and noticed a strange effect when running more than one process. I am having it encode wave files ripped on another machine to mp3s for my music library.
This sample was taken while copying wave files from the other machine: 01:36:54 PM PID minflt/s majflt/s %user %system nswap/s CPU 01:36:55 PM 7290 0.00 0.00 29.00 38.00 0.00 0 01:36:55 PM 6129 0.00 0.00 1.00 10.00 0.00 0 01:36:55 PM 28240 0.00 0.00 12.00 3.00 0.00 0 7290 is lame encoding wav -> mp3 6129 is samba, receiving wav from another machine 28240 is a process sampling data from the sound card Forty seconds later, when the copying of that mp3 had finished, the cpu use looks like this: 01:37:34 PM PID minflt/s majflt/s %user %system nswap/s CPU 01:37:35 PM 7290 0.00 0.00 85.00 1.00 0.00 0 01:37:35 PM 6129 4.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 01:37:35 PM 28240 0.00 0.00 9.00 0.00 0.00 0 As you can see, the percentage of system cpu use by lame has dropped significantly, and that's for a process that has been doing the same thing all the time. Shouldn't lame be getting around 84% cpu for the encoding when samba is using 11% - now it seems like it's getting only around 30%... Why is this happening? What can I do to fix it? Andreas _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
