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From: dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: CPU utilization numbers in ps and gr_top - what are they?
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Date: 31 Oct 90 22:16:31 GMT
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I'm curious about the CPU usage numbers displayed by ps and gr_top.  Are
they really what they claim to be?  Why do they always top out at 80%?
Why do they never seem to add up to a sensible number, and sometimes add
up to considerably more than 100% * the number of processors?

 -David Hinds
  dhinds@cb-iris.stanford.edu