may be you are right......but before posting such stuff be more specific. Like which kernel you are running, type of process you are running and stuff like that. PK On 3/23/06, Vijay R <vjr.work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There are few application that i am running. One is a kernel thread which > handles DSP related functionality, "top" process, and few user level voice > applications which get activated when voice data is received. > The network traffic that i am sending is FTP traffic. So above mentioned > process should not be affected by this traffic. > I am suspecting that interrupt processing might be adding to the process > utilization. > > VJ > > > On 3/23/06, Prosenjit Kundu <pkundu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Can you name few process ? > > > > How are you making sure that the process are not related to networking > > or being used by TCP stack ? > > > > > > PK > > > > On 3/23/06, Vijay R <vjr.work@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > > I do not whether this is the right pace to ask this question. Please > forgive > > > me and direct me, if it is not. > > > I am using "top" command to check the CPU utilization of various tasks > in > > > presence and absence of network traffic. > > > It shows that even the processes which have nothing to do with > networking > > > have their utilization increased in presence of network traffic. > > > Can anybody throw light on this? > > > > > > Thank you, > > > VJ > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Prosenjit Kundu > > > > -- Regards, Prosenjit Kundu -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/