[gentoo-user] CPU percentage reported by gkrellm

[gentoo-user] CPU percentage reported by gkrellm

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

I am puzzled why gkrellm does not always report 100% usage when I'm
running tasks that --- I assume --- always have at least one process in
the runnable state. I've never seen gkrellm pegged at 100%, even when I
run 3 or more emerges (with MAKEOPTS="-j2") at the same time. (I have a
single core Turion 64 processor.)

What happens is that gkrellm bounces between 99% and 100%. Does the
processor really go idle several times a second? Or is this an artifact
of, say, the way I/O processing is reported? 

--- Vladimir

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Re: [gentoo-user] CPU percentage reported by gkrellm

[Dale]

Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
> I am puzzled why gkrellm does not always report 100% usage when I'm
> running tasks that --- I assume --- always have at least one process in
> the runnable state. I've never seen gkrellm pegged at 100%, even when I
> run 3 or more emerges (with MAKEOPTS="-j2") at the same time. (I have a
> single core Turion 64 processor.)
>
> What happens is that gkrellm bounces between 99% and 100%. Does the
> processor really go idle several times a second? Or is this an artifact
> of, say, the way I/O processing is reported? 
>
> --- Vladimir
>
>   

Just to let you know you are not alone, I have seen some strange
reporting on gkrellm too.  I run folding and it don't always add up just
right for some reason.  I'm not sure how gkrellm works but I assume it
reads /proc to figure out what is going on.  Maybe it is the way /proc
files change or something. 

Still like gkrellm though.  Lots of skins too.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)
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