Hello all, Can you plz explain the results of the top utility on Fedora 4. System is - Intel Xeon with 2 processors. Tasks: 69 total, 1 running, 68 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 24.4% us, 0.8% sy, 0.0% ni, 74.4% id, 0.2% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.2% si Cpu1 : 21.9% us, 0.8% sy, 0.0% ni, 76.9% id, 0.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.2% si Cpu2 : 24.6% us, 0.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 74.2% id, 0.2% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.2% si Cpu3 : 22.0% us, 0.8% sy, 0.0% ni, 76.8% id, 0.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.2% si Mem: 4086512k total, 3197464k used, 889048k free, 156972k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1135748k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 12202 catalina 16 0 2976m 1.5g 45m S 99.9 39.6 164:09.43 java 26624 named 22 0 72948 6184 1324 S 1.0 0.2 7:23.82 named ........................ and the same but with the aggregate Tasks: 69 total, 1 running, 68 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 29.6% us, 0.8% sy, 0.0% ni, 69.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 4086512k total, 3198580k used, 887932k free, 156972k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1136008k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 12202 catalina 16 0 2976m 1.5g 45m S 99.9 39.6 164:24.55 java 325 root 16 0 2024 972 784 R 0.7 0.0 0:00.01 top ........................ I'm wonder what is the _real_ load of processors? To which extent does Java _really_ load them? I don't get this. tnanks