have a look at this 'top' output! (The Idle %) Bug?
--------------------- CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle total 193.8% 0.0% 6.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 8660443227093685.6% cpu00 93.8% 0.0% 6.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 8660443227093685.7% cpu01 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% Mem: 2068224k av, 1877804k used, 190420k free, 0k shrd, 12612k ---------------------
and this one....
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75 processes: 71 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 184.0% 0.0% 17.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 29280546148745318.4%
cpu00 84.1% 0.0% 17.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 29280546148745318.4%
cpu01 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Mem: 2068224k av, 1882264k used, 185960k free, 0k shrd, 12772k buff
212820k active, 1452344k inactive
Swap: 4096296k av, 0k used, 4096296k free 1206424k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 4753 jeetu 25 0 437M 437M 8952 S 99.9 21.6 10:41 1 java 4798 jeetu 16 0 1160 1160 936 R 18.9 0.0 0:31 0 top
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Regards, Jeetu
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