Re: Strange amounts of cpu usage
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 03:24:13PM +0100, John Tate wrote:
> I have a process using 339% of CPU on Debian Wheezy.
>
> john@fekete:~$ ps aux | grep shallot
> john 31424 339 0.0 175088 1576 pts/9 Rl+ 23:02 1:38
> shallot -f keys/test ^XXXXXXXX
>
> This is rather weird.
Not really. A process may have many threads - so the total can exceed a single CPU.
However: if you only have TWO cpus (according to /proc/cpuinfo) then yes: that is weird.
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Karl E. Jorgensen
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