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Old 01-09-2007
N00b question on CPU % in top
I have a process in my TOP output that is consistantly at 97% usage. I have 16 CPUs on my box. So is the 97% the cumalative usage of all the CPUs or just one?
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Old 01-09-2007
Here's the output:

load averages: 9.57, 9.49, 9.99; up 32+23:28:00 20:10:29
1102 processes: 1088 sleeping, 5 zombie, 9 on cpu
CPU states: 31.6% idle, 50.7% user, 17.7% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 48G phys mem, 4004M free mem, 8193M swap, 8022M free swap

PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
13137 oraprprd 1 0 0 3681M 3657M cpu 259.4H 94.56% oracle
2465 orahfprd 1 59 0 9126M 9109M sleep 0:29 45.03% oracle
18658 orahfprd 1 51 0 9126M 9109M cpu 0:27 42.59% oracle
2592 oraprprd 1 31 0 3770M 3719M cpu 0:30 29.47% oracle
8030 oraprprd 1 59 0 3770M 3718M sleep 0:05 26.14% oracle
29442 orahfprd 1 59 0 9126M 9109M sleep 0:51 22.49% oracle
19647 orahfprd 1 59 0 9089M 9069M sleep 14:53 21.88% oracle
# 3  
Old 01-09-2007
That process is using 94.56% of a single cpu.
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Old 01-10-2007
Phew! Thanks
 
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