I'm running a two-core laptop that, once in a great while, shows
approximately 250% CPU usage by a single process in top. How exactly
does that work?
Note: It's not entirely surprising that this particular process is
consuming a lot of resources. It's just surprising to me that it's
consuming mo
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 16:57 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> I'm running a two-core laptop that, once in a great while, shows
> approximately 250% CPU usage by a single process in top. How exactly
> does that work?
>
> Note: It's not entirely surprising that this particular process is
> consuming a lo
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:02:46AM +, Craig Butler wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 16:57 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > I'm running a two-core laptop that, once in a great while, shows
> > approximately 250% CPU usage by a single process in top. How exactly
> > does that work?
> >
> > Note: It'
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:02:46AM +, Craig Butler wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 16:57 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > > I'm running a two-core laptop that, once in a great while, shows
> > > approximately 250% CPU usage by a single proce
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 06:20:02AM -0700, Dmitri Brengauz wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> > Do you have a reference to a relatively simple explanation of how that
> > weighting works (and why)?
>
> man 1 ps:
>
> %cpu The CPU utilization of the process; thi
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 11:36 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 06:20:02AM -0700, Dmitri Brengauz wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > >
> > > Do you have a reference to a relatively simple explanation of how that
> > > weighting works (and why)?
> >
> > >
> > > %cpu The CPU utilization of the process; this is a decaying average
> > > over up to a minute of previous (real) time. Since the time
> > > base over which this is computed varies (since processes may be
> > > very young) it is possible for the sum of all %cpu fields to
> > > ex
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 02:32:32PM +, Craig Butler wrote:
>
> ASK GOOGLE !!!
I DID !!!
I must have used a less effective search string than you.
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