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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.

-- 
Karl E. Jorgensen


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