High CPU Idle level

[n3mo]

I know it won't burn the CPU , but before it wasn't like that. I think that
something  isn't alright. Thanks for the reply, after all.
Ned

2009/9/13 Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com>

> On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 11:46 +0300, n3mo wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > I run Ubuntu with Fvwm and without Desktop Manager. At the fresh start
> > my top looks like this :
> >
> > Cpu(s): 4.8%us,  8.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 86.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> > 0.0%st
>
> This is normal...don't worry about it
>
> > Where this CPU Idle comes from? It's never go away. I mean, when I
> > start skype, audacious, firefox, etc. CPU usage goes up but the rest %
> > goes to CPU idle.
> > Is there way to fix this, before my CPU die.
>
> CPU Idle percentage is exactly like your free RAM percentage... It's
> telling you how much CPU is unused... i.e. idle.  It don't going to burn
> up your CPU or anything. Don't worry about it.
>
> hope that helps!
>
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