High CPU Idle level

[n3mo]

Thank you! :)
Ned.

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

> 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 :)
>
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