I'm using the gnome-system-monitor to watch some apps and their resource usage. On the process view, it lists a %CPU column. I assume this means the percentage of the CPU that the application is currently using. THe documentation doesn't really clarify this, but seems not to contradict this interpretation.
The app I'm watching frequently hits 40-60 percent CPU usage. My question is about interpreting this. I'm testing on a Core2 Duo machine. My understanding of computer architecture is not great, but not trivial. Here's what I'm thinking. If one cpu is idle, and an app gets to run, it's going to get 100% of the cpu, correct? Even if it's only executing a 100 instructions, if there's no contention for the CPU, the app will have 100% of the CPU for however small of an interval it takes to execute those instructions, correct? I'm certainly not familiar with the linux internals of my debian system enough If someone can shed some light on this, as well as pointing me towards some information and tools about how to better judge application performance, I'd appreciate it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
