Hello Linux ppl, In the readprofile man page load=(# of clk ticks) / (length of the procedure) What does "length of procedure" means. Does that mean the # of ASM lines of the procedure code? What is the units of the load. It cannot be %. because ----------------------------------------------------------- 152495 default_idle 3176.9792 ----------------------------------------------------------- the above line indicate tha more than 100% of times CPU is idle. This cannot happen. -Shesha -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/