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Old 06-11-2009, 08:15 AM   #1
connecticket
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trying to understand top command -H option


Hi,

I am running the top command to monitor the CPU utilization of a multi-threaded process. When I run the command with just the pid it gives me utilization of about 60-70%. However when I run top with the -H option, the cumulative CPU utilization of all the threads does not come anywhere close to 60-70% (it's around 14%). I am using a 4 core processor. Is there something that I'm missing here? Any tips on how to correctly interpret the information given by the -H option?

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-connecticket
 
Old 06-12-2009, 12:46 AM   #2
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What is 14 * 4? Does that come near?
 
  


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