On April 7, 2004 08:45 am, Ken Gilmour wrote:
> Hi Justin
> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 16:35, Justin Guerin wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
> > Cpu(s): 32.1% us, 67.9% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi, 
> > 0.0% si
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > My CPU is 100% utilized, but no processes seem to be using the CPU.
>
> <SNIP>
>
> The 67.9% SY is the system idle process... The amount that the system is
> Recognising as free... sy = system. So your CPU is really just using up
> 32.1% in this example

But what's accounting for the 32.1%?  I have about 30% usage all the time 
too and the top couple entries add up to less than 5 percent followed by a 
bunch of processes with a cpu usage of 0%.  So what's using 25% of my cpu 
when I'm not doing anything?

Thanks,
Leo


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