Linux 'top' utility widly inaccurate (more so for multi-CPU/core hardware)?
- by amn
Hi all.
After using 'top' for long time, albeit basically, I have grown to distrust it's '% CPU' column reports. I have a 8-core (quad core Intel i7 920 with hyperthreading) hardware, and see some wild numbers when running a process that should not use more than 5% overall. top happily reports 50%, and I suspect it is not so.
My question is, is…