Re: [Hampshire] Weird output from 'top'

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Author: Chris. Aubrey-Smith
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Weird output from 'top'
2009/11/12 Alan Pope <alan@???>

> 2009/11/12 Hugo Mills <hugo@???>:
> > 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. :)
> >
>
> Supplemental to this, press 1 in top to get it to display the cores
> separately rather than aggregated.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
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Yes, it is dual-core. I know about top <1> for per-core stats, but I thought
I read somewhere that the '%CPU' per-process column was an amalgamation of
the two - can't find the reference now, of course!

Chris.