On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Dave Hylands <dhylands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, check your CPU usage. It's probably less than 100%. Let's say
it's at 46%. That means that the system is spending 54% of its time
"doing nothing" or being idle.
>From a macroscopic level, it looks like the CPU is busy. But from a
microscopic level, the kernel is spending 540 millseconds out of every
second waiting for something to happen. Those 540 milliseconds are
when the kernel is idle.
Thanks .
