From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gebuk-0005x0-M7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:31:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9UISx0d020429; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:28:59 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9UIQrne003001 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:26:54 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8200064B63 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:26:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.281 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.281 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.914, BAYES_00=-2.599, DNS_FROM_RFC_POST=1.708, DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS=1.447, SARE_SUB_ODDWORD_G=0.077] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8ek6GgbbYi9W for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:26:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from alnrmhc12.comcast.net (alnrmhc12.comcast.net [206.18.177.52]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DCD364896 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:26:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.18.12] (c-71-202-97-79.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[71.202.97.79]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc12) with SMTP id <20061030182636b12007h6eje>; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:26:40 +0000 Subject: [gentoo-user] CPU percentage reported by gkrellm From: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" To: Gentoo User List Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:26:32 -0800 Message-Id: <1162232792.12405.25.camel@scarlatti.leonora.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bac3e907-c285-4b64-b181-7959094c1e91 X-Archives-Hash: 30953d74c1c40dea04c274c610c60480 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 -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list