High CPU Idle level

[Andrew Farris]

On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 04:15 -0500, Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 12:00 +0300, n3mo wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I'm positive that this is fully normal. 99% of me is sure, and the other
> 1% agrees... just for comparison, right now my computer is only running
> evolution in a GUI. All my GUI apps indicate that my processor is not
> under any significant load. TOP agrees:

Cpu(s):  2.7%us,  5.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 92.2%id,

This is directly from my TOP, running in a terminal. as you can see...
the idle is high... and the idle is high because my CPU isn't in use.
I'm fairly certian that it was indeed like that before, and you may have
simply not noticed. remember, %id is just telling you how much processor
time you have free... not how much is being used for something. 

Really, it's normal :)

-- 
Andrew
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