Why does 'top' say my machine is only 50% idle?
- by Chris Moore
What's going on here?
I'm running nothing on the system, iotop and iftop show the network and hard drive are both idle, and top (sorted by %CPU) shows nothing running. So why is the system only 50% idle? What's the other 50% waiting for? How can I find out?
top - 12:01:05 up 3 days, 15:03, 1 user, load average: 6.00, 6.01, 6.05
Tasks: 179…