On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 15:35:22 +0100, Jordi Prats <jprats@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > On a multiprocessor machine with an smp kernel if I use top it shows > only one cpu: > > Cpu(s): 2.4% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 97.5% id, 0.1% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si > > What's causing this? /proc/cpuinfo is reporting more cpus than just > one... Onyone could help me? By default the cpus are combined for this. Type '1' to get separate listings for each cpu. There are two ways to calculate the percentage when in this mode. Read the man page if you want some more info about this.