From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 25 19:18:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB621065670 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 19:18:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.165]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE978FC1E for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 19:18:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from [212.54.34.139] (helo=smtp8.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M8fgp-0005vO-EF; Mon, 25 May 2009 21:18:27 +0200 Received: from [84.25.72.219] (helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp8.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M8fgm-0006Cc-3h; Mon, 25 May 2009 21:18:24 +0200 Received: from mbp.egypt.nl (mbp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.33]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38403983B; Mon, 25 May 2009 21:18:20 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <1932D812-03CF-48AF-A306-669C39862EB7@boosten.org> From: Peter Boosten To: Wojciech Puchar In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 21:18:20 +0200 References: <200905241315.n4ODFB96007801@mp.cs.niu.edu> <4A1A58FA.60303@boosten.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1M8fgm-0006Cc-3h X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.111, required 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_05 -1.11, SPF_PASS -0.00) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: peter@boosten.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Yuri , Scott Bennett , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, utisoft@gmail.com Subject: Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5% X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 19:18:30 -0000 On 25 mei 2009, at 21:08, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> Regardless from what you said: you _wrote_ CPU _load_, not cpu > what's a difference for you between "CPU load" and "CPU utilization"? > i mean CPU load not system load. The CPU will perform the same, whether at 10% utilization, or at 100% utilization, the system however won't. That's the difference between load and utilization. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org