[SunHELP] CPU usage for Process

William Enestvedt William.Enestvedt at jwu.edu
Fri Oct 17 08:04:42 CDT 2003


> Top  o/p for reference.
> 10608 guest  4  59  -20  391M  390M cpu1   23.2H 49.51% wroute
>
   Note: If 'top' shows one of two CPUs running at 49%, it means that that CPU
is nearly maxed out. According to the man page for 'top', the "CPU" column
indicates a percentage of the system's total CPU resources, and so half of two
CPUs is one whole CPU. You can't make that COPU workk harder than 100%, and
apparently your provcess can't break out across two CPUs, so you'll need to
look for optimization elsewhere, or get used to it.
-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI



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