On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 00:42, Warren Harris wrote: > I'm running with CentOS4 on a 2 cpu machine. I'm running a java process > which creates a large number of threads as well as other native > processes running under heavy load mixing 200+ audio streams. However, > top shows none of these having any %CPU time. All of them read 0.0, > except for top itself which occasionally shows up with 0.7, and > migration/N with 0.3. All other processes read 0.0. The load average of > the machine varies between 1.5 and 4.0. > > Any suggestions on where to look for the problem would be appreciated, What problem? Your system should be spending most of its time waiting for I/O to complete which doesn't show as CPU activity. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com