Re: [Hampshire] Weird output from 'top'

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Author: Hugo Mills
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 05:00:50PM +0000, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
> While running Iceweasel, my machine (3.00Ghz, 1.0 Mb IBM S50, Debian Lenny)
> suddenly became very sluggish. I ran top and found that firefox.bin was
> reported as consuming 135% of processor capacity! I killed the process and
> everything returned to normal.
>
> Now, I'm used to certain public figures claiming to be '110% certain' about
> various things, but 135% CPU? Can anyone explain?


If it's a dual-core machine, then you have 200% of a CPU available
to work with, and FF is taking 135% of a CPU total (i.e. it could be
maxing out one core, and using 35% of the time available on the
other).

If it's a single-core machine, you've got problems. :)

Hugo.

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