[SunHELP] CPU usage for Process
    omar at rkmcinc.com 
    omar at rkmcinc.com
       
    Fri Oct 17 09:01:48 CDT 2003
    
    
  
I think max you can do, change the priority of the process that is nice, i 
think you can atleast decrease the foce context switching.. 
thanks 
omar a 
Quoting William Enestvedt <William.Enestvedt at jwu.edu>:
> > 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
> --
> Will Enestvedt
> UNIX System Administrator
> Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
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