> ...and on an otherwise quiescent system the CPU is quite idle while doing
> a kernel build, specially if you have slow disks like mine, and don't use
> the "make -j" trick. On another VT I could see (using top) that the CPU
> was idle between 15-95%, averaging around 60%.
top is broken broken broken. I can make top see 95% idle while cpu is
running at full tilt, and it happens pretty normally.
TOP is lying about idle time - if you have short-lived processes, top
will not see them (they are gone when it tries to look!) and top
computes idle as 100%-other cpu time, which is broken broken broken.]
Pavel
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