Didi wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Theo Band <theo.band at greenpeak.com> wrote: > >> I have a quad core CPU running Centos5. >> >> When I use top, I see that running processes use 245% instead of 100%. >> If I use gkrellm, I just see one core being used 100%. >> > > Press 1 in top to see the per CPU info > Tasks: 165 total, 3 running, 162 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.5%us, 0.8%sy, 19.6%ni, 79.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 0.0%us, 1.2%sy, 98.6%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 13.0%ni, 87.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 1.1%us, 0.8%sy, 74.5%ni, 23.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st Mem: 6097924k total, 5837764k used, 260160k free, 126288k buffers Swap: 4194296k total, 112k used, 4194184k free, 5119488k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SWAP SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4742 made 39 15 117m 24m 93m 11m R 262.8 0.4 0:49.35 eldo_64.exe 18037 thba 34 15 340m 277m 63m 45m R 244.9 4.7 275:09.10 ic This doesn't make a difference for the listed process. Theo